Alie Ward

I mean, I think that they started candy bars to feed soldiers.

Candy bars were invented for that purpose.

So that makes sense.

And what a, you know, 55 cent miracle a Snickers bar can be.

You can see our confectionology episode.

It's all about candy history.

Take a gander at snow leopard phylogeography and population structure supports two global populations with single refugial origin.

She wrote that, but she says one ancillary thing that happened from that research was so interesting.

Literally the first day they were in the field in Kyrgyzstan.

No way.

Wow.

What?

Yeah, I know.

Did you ever get a chance to tell that person like, thanks, you're a real one?

This 2022 paper, New Distribution Record of Dole from Southern Kyrgyzstan Using Noninvasive Genetic Sampling, in the journal Canid Biology and Distribution, it details that this dole was also called the Asiatic wild dog, the red dog, the red wolf, or the whistling dog.

But yeah, it's spelled Tihol, if you will.

It's listed as endangered with a maximum of 2,000 mature individuals estimated in the global population.

And in the paper itself, it says a scat sample was found by a son of ranger Tuzbek Tuktukul Uulu.

And we thank him and his family for their contribution.

And she says that this single scat sample helped scientists discover that the doles were not in fact gone, or if they had been, they're now returning to their former range.