You are conducting fieldwork and discover two groups of squirrels living on opposite sides of a lake. How would you design a study to determine, without disturbing the squirrels, whether these two groups belong to the same species? Explain.
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Capture recapture method refers to the process of a researcher tagging animals without disrupting them from their habitat. This is a very effective mode of carrying out scientific research. The method was developed in 1896 as a mode of observation among populations. Applications of capture-recapture procedures go back to at least 1896, to the work of Petersen [1896] who was interested in the size of fish populations (Herzog, 2004). In the effort to determine whether….
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