Ambergris, that versatile sperm whale excretion that Herman Melville wrote so prodigiously about when the ocean was just a Dave & Buster’s for murdering sperm whales, can be a pretty valuable ...

Slog tipper Ansel directed me to this fascinating Verge article about Tucker, a dog trained to sniff out fecal deposits left by killer whales around the San Juan Islands: The dog is steering the boat, ...