Sheri Voudren, Ethiopian Wolf

Sheri Voudren                                                                                 05-06-13

                                  Endangered Species Research Project

The Ethiopian Wolf is an endangered species. The scientific name for Ethiopian Wolfs is Canis Simensis. The appearance on this wolf is that there coat is reddish gold and there under parts are white. Females are normally a paler color. They have long legs small teeth but a long muzzle also with a bushy tails with a black tip.

Ethiopian Wolfs are pack animals they have a pack of at least 6and they are a predator to smaller animals. Ethiopian Wolfs are carnivores. They eat rodents, giant mole rats, and other species of grass rats, young antelopes, and lambs. These kind of wolfs are awake during the day and they all rest in a pack at night out in the open.

Ethiopia Africa is where you can find the Ethiopian Wolfs and also in Afro-Alpine of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Ethiopian Wolfs natural habitat is just land in the middle of nowhere. They are around lots of land and open moorlands where vegetation is less than 0.25 meter’s high. They sleep in the middle of the land in the grass in packs of at least 6.

The Ethiopian Wolfs population keeps dropping because of rabies. Since 2003 at least 38 have died from rabies in the Bale Mountains. Another 20 – 25 are missing and presumed dead there are 300 endangered wolfs. There’s less than 450 Ethiopian Wolfs left on earth. The 450 wolfs that are left are living in 7 scattered high altitude pockets of the Bale Mountains.

The population decline is because of the outbreak in rabies, agricultural practices, hybridization, and high altitude grazing. The biggest reason the population decline is because of the rabies its spreading threw there packs and killing more and more. They are trying to protect them by trying to come out with vaccines for rabies that would be able to be dropped in the field by an aircraft into the wild populations so they could bring the population of wolfs back up. The population would hopefully increase after the medicine.

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