African Wild Dogs Research Paper

How many African wild dogs exist in the world? As reported in Animal Planet, there are about 3,000 to 5,500 African wild dog’s left in the wild. Their scientific name is “Lycaon pictus”. Size wise, the African wild dog is roughly the same size as a 6ft tall man. To identify the African wild dog look for fur that is mottled with brown, yellow, black, and white patches. They have large ears that look like Mickey mouse ears. Their eyes have large dark circles around them and the average African wild dog has four toes instead of the average, which is five. There are only 3,000 to 5,500 African wild dogs left. Is it possible for humans to try to save them or will they make this situation worse?
African wild dogs live in sub-Saharan Africa. They usually live in packs in the open plains or on the Savanna. They prey …show more content…
Farmers have been known to shoot and/or poison the dogs. The farmers then blame the species of the loss of their livestock. The land where these dogs roam as decreased in size because settlements have expanded. African wild dogs once roamed the continent, but the humans have interacted too much with them. To help them, humans must engage local communities, and mitigate human-wildlife conflict.
Why are there only 3,000 to 5,500 African wild dogs left? One main reason is that people are killing them. Once, these dogs roamed the entire continent. Now there is only about 10 to 40 in a pack, but when life was good there was about 100 in a pack. The average litter size is only eight. Humans need to take action. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is working to protect important wildlife corridors between huge game reserves and reducing conflict with humans. For the sake of the African wild dogs, contribute and donate money to preferably WWF. If people do not contribute the African wild dogs will become