Collecting Poop to Save a National Park | Expedition Raw

I don’t think I’ll ever get used to
putting my finger up a water box anus
alright buddy okay
I wouldn’t apologize yeah and it’s one
less thing you has to become self at all
we want to know what effect the animals
are having on this ecosystem and to do
that I have to know what they’re eating
to find out what they’re eating I have
to look at their poop full of pellets
cease when you get a fecal sample you’ll
mess around just want to be as thorough
as possible in Gorongosa National Park
most of the wildlife was wiped out
during the Mozambican Civil War you want
to start on the measurements and all
water buck on the other hand have become
ten times more abundant than they were
before the Civil War
if we want to understand why the water
buck are doing so well we have to know
what their daily lives are like the best
way to do that is not just collecting
poop but also these critter cam collars
it generally takes us less than 10
minutes to go through the whole process
and then administer the reversal drink
so they wake up right away you know if
you were abducted by aliens and you
don’t really remember any of it I
imagine that’s how a water buckles after
this experience how much was still in
there for me to get when the animal
wakes up and walks off the colors will
start logging their GPS locations and
the cameras will start shooting video
it’s giving us a totally unprecedented
view of life as a water bucks