Wild dogs
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Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs Managing the Impacts of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs
Australia's wild dogs include dingoes, introduced around 4000 years ago, feral domestic dogs and hybrids between the two. They are widely distributed throughout Australia. Predation and harassment of stock by wild dogs causes millions of dollars worth of losses to Australian sheep, cattle and goat producers each year. There are also opportunity costs in areas where sheep are not grazed because ...
متن کاملContact with Domestic Dogs Increases Pathogen Exposure in Endangered African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus)
BACKGROUND Infectious diseases have contributed to the decline and local extinction of several wildlife species, including African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). Mitigating such disease threats is challenging, partly because uncertainty about disease dynamics makes it difficult to identify the best management approaches. Serious impacts on susceptible populations most frequently occur when generali...
متن کاملEfforts going to the dogs? Evaluating attempts to re-introduce endangered wild dogs in South Africa
1 School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa; 2 Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; 3 Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, and Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford Unive...
متن کاملAfrican wild dogs test the 'survival of the fittest' paradigm.
Charles Darwin first used the term 'survival of the fittest' in the 5th edition of The origin of species. A literal interpretation implies that predators will selectively prey upon the weakest members of a population. We demonstrate that this is true for African wild dogs hunting impala.
متن کاملForest-dwelling African wild dogs in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
Ethiopia harbours several relict populations of African wild dogs Lycaon pictus, but most data is anecdotal. Wild dogs are known to occur atypically in the montane wet forest of Harenna in the southern slopes of Bale Mountains National Park, southeastern Ethiopia. A questionnaire-survey of 90 Harenna forest residents investigated the local people’s knowledge and attitudes to wild dogs. Wild dog...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1448-6563,2159-5356
DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2017.1300123