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Nature 415, 107 (10 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415107a
Fur flies over lynx survey's suspect samples
Rex Dalton
A study of the habitat of the threatened Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) in US forests is embroiled in fierce controversy, after it emerged that wildlife biologists sent fur samples from captive lynx to a laboratory that was supposed to be monitoring the whereabouts of the animals in the wild.The Washington Times published allegations last month that the biologists were seeking to distort a national survey of the lynx by planting the captive animals' fur in the forest.
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