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<p>NAZARETH &#8212; Don&#8217;t disturb the carcasses.</p><p>That&#8217;s the message folks at the Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center in eastern Pennsylvania have for visitors.</p><p>The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has placed deer carcasses in the nature park in hopes of drawing out carnivores and scavengers like turkey vultures.</p><p>The agency says it&#8217;s for its BioBlitz 2017 on Saturday. That&#8217;s when scientists, college students, naturalists and experienced volunteers will comb through the park for 12 hours, studying what kinds of animals are living there.</p><p>The education center website describes a BioBlitz as &#8220;an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area.&#8221;</p><p>The park tells visitors to its Facebook page that the carcasses will be disposed of after the study. But, for now, they&#8217;re to be left alone.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em> &#8212; The Associated Press</em></p><style>
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Talker: Animal carcasses in Pa. park are for environmental study