Sniffing Out Extinction Achieve 3000 Answers

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What is this Article mainly about?	Dogs have such an incredible sense of smell that they have been recruited as conservation detection specialists who use their noses to locate endangered species so that scientists can find these rare animals, breed them in captivity, and later release them into the wild.
According to the Article, why did conservationists at Zoos Victoria train two border collies to locate a critically endangered species using the scent of the animal?	The conservationists have had great difficulty locating the endangered Baw Baw frogs because the animals aren’t easily reached, seen, or heard in the wild.
Why did the author include this passage?	To explain why conservationists find it so difficult to locate the elusive Baw Baw frog in its natural habitat
Which two words are the closest antonyms?	uncanny and explicable
What is one inference the reader can make from the Article?	Scientists find it more difficult to locate female Baw Baw frogs than males during the five or six weeks that the frogs’ calls occur.
Which information is not in the Article?	Which breed of dogs has proven to be the best at sniffing out certain illnesses
In this passage, the word discern means __.	to recognize something after careful examination
Which passage from the Article best supports the idea that an animal might not continue to live on as a species without human intervention?	Since 1980, problems stemming from climate change, non-native species, and a deadly fungus have decimated about 98 percent of the Baw Baw frog population, and fewer than 1,200 of them remain in the wild. Conservationists fear that unless the trend is reversed soon, these small brown amphibians will be extinct within the next 10 years, but the problem is, finding Baw Baw frogs is no easy feat.