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Tucker hates the water. Unlike most Labrador retrievers, this particular 10-year-old male has a pretty healthy phobia of getting wet. It's ironic, then, that Tucker's job is to help track orcas in the straits hugging the eastern and southern shores of Canada's Vancouver Island. As a Conservation Canine, or C-K9, he is specially trained to sniff out whale poop from the deck of a small research boat, allowing scientists to scoop up fresh samples for study. [Source: Smithsonian]
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