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Marine Detection Gets a Nose
· New York time
Sgiath, thought to be the UK's first sea squirt-hunting dog, has been honoured as animal of the year, the BBC reports. The dog is trained to sniff out the invasive marine pest nicknamed sea vomit. The honour recognises a specific detection skill, not an entire solution to invasive species. Locating the organism is useful work in its own right. The assignment is unusually clear: find the pest. Unlike many modern workplaces, it requires neither a rebranding exercise nor a meeting to discover whether the problem should be called an opportunity.
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