Unlike other koala detection dogs who sniff out koala scat, Bear is able to smell and lead rescuers to live koalas Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

Record-breaking bushfires are raging along the eastern and southeastern coast of Australia, burning through prime marsupial habitat and claiming the lives of hundreds of koalas, an already vulnerable ...

Dogs who have been trained to find and save koalas in the wild are helping to rescue the animals in Australia’s devastating bushfires. Bear, a border collie-koolie cross, is a detection dog who sniffs ...

PORT MCQUARIE, Australia - A 4-year-old springer spaniel named Taylor has been performing a special kind of search and rescue effort as bushfires rage across much of Australia — she’s a detection dog ...

The amazing ability of dogs to detect and track down specific scents could have profound effects on Australia's koala population. Perhaps surprisingly, koalas are particularly prone to chlamydia.

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A team of five detection dogs is tracking down koala droppings across NSW and Queensland to provide samples for experts to examine. A team of five dogs has been deployed to track down koala scat, ...

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(CNN) — Dogs who have been trained to find and save koalas in the wild are helping to rescue the animals in Australia’s devastating bushfires. Bear, a border collie-koolie cross, is a detection dog ...

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Dogs who have been trained to find and save koalas in the wild are helping to rescue the animals in Australia's devastating bushfires. Dogs who have been trained to find and save koalas in the wild ...