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| Subject: The Ethiopian Wolf Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:44 am | |
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www.wolf.com Species Focus for 2005 Mexican Wolf Canis lupus baileyi Kingdom ANIMALIA Phylum CHORDATA Class MAMMALIA Order CARNIVORA Family CANIDAE Common Name/s Mexican Wolf Timber Wolf Prairie Wolf Lobo
Ethiopian Wolf The Ethiopian Wolf is the Most Endangered Canid in the World.
DNA analysis suggests that the Ethiopian wolf is descended from grey wolves that crossed into Africa from Western Europe at the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. When the ice melted, the wolves were isolated in the Afro-alpine mountains.
Currently, there around 470 Ethiopian Wolves that inhabit a relatively small geographic region in Ethiopia. Of the 470, only a small percentage will reproduce and successfully raise pups to adulthood.
With genetic diversity as limited as it already is, it is imperative that the loss of breeding adults and their young be limited in every way possible.
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The Ethiopian Wolf Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan Compiled and edited by: Claudio Sillero-Zubiri and David Macdonald____________________________________ | |
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