{"id":634,"date":"2008-07-03T06:54:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T10:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=634"},"modified":"2008-08-30T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:54:56","slug":"dr-maehr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Maehr"},"content":{"rendered":"

A touching article about the passing of a passionate Florida scientist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dave was a gung-ho wildlife biologist, and he was always tracking something. I’d met him more than 20 years earlier, when he was catching panthers in the Everglades and collaring them with radio transmitters.<\/p>\n

Now Dave was doing the same thing with Florida black bears, mapping their movements with the goal of protecting the species by preserving its native territory.<\/p>\n

He’d bait the traps with doughnuts, which bears evidently cannot resist. He e-mailed photos of a young male that had figured out how to pilfer the pastries without tripping the trap. Dave admired the animal’s ingenuity, but he was determined to outwit him.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t join Dave on that trip, so I didn’t get a chance to speak with him again. He died on June 20 in a plane crash near Lake Placid. He was only 52.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More about Maehr here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A touching article about the passing of a passionate Florida scientist. Dave was a gung-ho wildlife biologist, and he was always tracking something. 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