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Aggies take Wildlife National Quiz BowlTexas A team from Texas A&M University has won the 2009 Wildlife Society National Quiz Bowl Competition, held Sept. 22 in Monterey, Calif. "Aggie team members Caleb Carter of Longview, Drew Fowler of Sugar Land, Andrew Maddox of Houston, and team captain Samantha Reinhart of Fort Sill, Okla., upset a team from California's Humboldt State University 165-130 to win the championship round," said Bill Gibbs, a spokesman for Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Gibbs said Texas A&M's last such win was in 2005 with the 2006-2008 wins going to Humboldt State. The Texas A&M team also beat teams from Penn State University, the State University of New York-Syracuse and Utah State University to advance to the finals, Gibbs said. Teams from 14 universities from across the nation competed in the tournament. "The National Quiz Bowl tests students' knowledge in a variety wildlife management and conservation topics, including ecology, taxonomy, history and law, disease and pathology, and biodiversity," Gibbs said. All members of the Aggie team are majoring in wildlife and fisheries sciences and are members of the Texas A&M chapter of the Wildlife Society. Dr. Douglas Slack is the chapter advisor. Slack is a Regent's Professor and associate head in the department of wildlife and fisheries sciences. The Wildlife Society, founded in 1937, is a professional international scientific and educational association. For more information, go to the Wildlife Society website at: http://wildlife.org.
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