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Volunteers for Minnesota/Finland whitetail study
Hi All, first off apologies for the long silence, but we were doing some tests with the help of our 'friend' Valko (a not so impressive buck that the Natural History Museum has parked at the entrance of our building). Basically we have decided to take a slightly simpler route to sampling, using... -
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Volunteers for Minnesota/Finland whitetail study
A quick update: we are checking the legality of exporting meat out of the USA into Finland, and also (after MNElkNut' suggestion) the possibility of using hair instead of meat. This last option might be very practical, but we need to test what kind of pelt the hair comes from (a tanned pelt... -
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Volunteers for Minnesota/Finland whitetail study
Thanks Randy! Hopefully we can get this off the ground -- we will keep people posted on the forum regardless. -
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Volunteers for Minnesota/Finland whitetail study
That's a good question! In practice the sampling will have to be done based on where we find volunteers, especially because we are better off with many samples from across the state rather than just a handful of samples from a few selected spots (having few carefully selected samples would also... -
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Volunteers for Minnesota/Finland whitetail study
Thanks! we are happy to get any deer from Minnesota [Apologies for the goofiness I failed to quote the text I was replying to, but as a general rule we are planning to sample statewide] -
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Volunteers for Minnesota/Finland whitetail study
Hi All, my name is Federico Calboli and I am a geneticist working at the University of Helsinki, Finland. I am collaborating with a colleague who is studying the genetics of the Finnish whitetail population. As you might know Finnish immigrants in Minnesota sent two groups of whitetail deer...
