La Trobe U has trained dogs to sniff out the elusive alpine Stone Fly

This is a big deal indeed in detecting dog circles where success is generally considered finding faeces or nests, not the actual creature in question.

One of the LT U dogs is a border collie with manifestly superior sniffing skills to those of CMM’s BC, Buzz the Jazz Dog. The only thing he knows how to find is dinner, once in his bowl.