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Author | : IUCN/SSC Candid Specialist Group |
Publisher | : IUCN |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : African wild dog |
ISBN | : 2831704189 |
Over the last 30 years the African wild dog population has declined dramatically. Dogs have disappeared from 25 of the 39 countries where they were previously found, and only 6 populations are believed to number more than 100. Today it is believed that only between 3,000-5,500 dogs remain in 600-1,000 packs with most to be found in eastern and southern Africa. The dramatic reduction in their population is attributed to a number of factors including human population growth and activities, deterioration of habitat, and contact with domestic dogs and their diseases. This Action Plan explores some of the reasons behind their disappearance and provides a number of proposed solutions split into 3 priority areas, ranging from habitat management and conservation to monitoring domestic dogs.
Author | : Scott Creel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-12-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691207003 |
With only 5,000 surviving, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's most endangered large carnivores--and one of the most remarkable. This comprehensive portrait of wild dogs incorporates previously scattered information with important new findings from a six-year study in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, Africa's largest protected area. The book emphasizes ecology, concentrating on why wild dogs fare poorly in protected areas that maintain healthy populations of lions, hyenas, or other top carnivores. In addition to conservation issues, it covers fascinating aspects of wild dog behavior and social evolution. The Creels use demographic, behavioral, endocrine, and genetic approaches to examine how and why nonbreeding pack mates help breeding pairs raise their litters. They also present the largest data set ever collected on mammalian predator-prey interactions and the evolution of cooperative hunting, allowing them to account for wild dogs' prowess as hunters. By using a large sample size and sophisticated analytical tools, the authors step well beyond previous research. Their results include some surprises that will cause even specialists to rethink certain propositions, such as the idea that wild dogs are unusually vulnerable to infectious disease. Several findings apply broadly to the management of other protected areas. Of clear appeal to ecologists studying predation and cooperation in any population, this book collects and expands a cache of information useful to anyone studying conservation as well as to amateurs intrigued by the once-maligned but extraordinary wild dog.
Author | : Roger De la Harpe |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Arguable the most successful hunter in Africa, the African wild dog, ironically finds itself on the brink of extinction. Part of the Canidae family, and sharing a general similarity with the various canids worldwide, the African wild dog differs fundamentally from other canids: it belongs to the genus, Lycaon, which formed a new branch on the family tree some 3 million years back and subsequently evolved independently. Today it is the only survivor of this unique line and, because of its genetic difference, is unable to interbreed with any of its canid relatives or even with the domestic dog. Previously found in diverse habitats across the continent, it has tragically disappeared from much of its former range. Today there are only an estimated 3,000 to 5,500 wild dogs left in the whole of Africa, a mere 500 of which occur in South Africa.In spite of, or perhaps because of, the elusive nature of the wild dogs and their limited population numbers, Roger and Pat have produced their best book yet.
Author | : Mary Hoffman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1987-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780811468947 |
Text and photographs describe the behavior and habitats of wild dogs.
Author | : John McNutt |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Inst Press |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781560987178 |
Looks at wild dogs that roam the African savanna, and their social behavior, hunting techniques, and how they raise their young
Author | : Barbara Joosse |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2006-10-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0805070532 |
Ziva, a "wind-wild" young sled dog, decides whether to stay with the man who has trained her or to run free with the wolves and wind. What will Ziva choose, her love for the Man or the freedom of the wild? What will Ziva choose, her love for the Man or the freedom of the wild? Ziva heard the call of the wild. Most mushers believed that Ziva's eyes of different colors made her half wild, so no one wanted her. But one man took a liking to her. As Ziva begins to trust the Man, she learns to use her wild energy to pull his sled, but she's torn between her love for the Man and the wolf's call. Will she stay . . . or go?
Author | : Charles Basel |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2011-06-29 |
Genre | : Pets |
ISBN | : 1462893295 |
This story is about our dog named Junior. We lived on a mountaintop rain forest in Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. He was born to a pack of indigenous wild dogs that we had adopted. He was the runt of the litter. We didnt expect him to live because he was so frail. We nursed him separately. He grew to be the largest of the dogs in the pack. He continued to live with the dog pack in the rain forest. His was strong, with a very sensitive, gentle nature. When he was about five years old, we left Puerto Rico to return to the United States. We decided to take him and another dog, not from the pack, with us. Junior never had a collar on him. He had never been in a car or a house. This is the same dog that has left Puerto Rico on an airplane and is traveling around the United States. This is his story. He came from the rain forest of the Caribbean to the highways of the United States.
Author | : Timothy L. Biel |
Publisher | : Wildlife Education |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781888153040 |
Discusses the habits and behavior of wild dogs, including the gray wolf, jackal, dingo, fennec, bat-eared fox, and coyote.
Author | : Hugo van Lawick |
Publisher | : HarperAudio |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Pets |
ISBN | : |
Author | : ouping guo |
Publisher | : ouping guo |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |