Tag: canids

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November 15, 2022

Wild Cam: How do city coyotes choose dens?

It was a relatively warm day in the middle of an Edmonton winter when a coyote sprang out of its den as Sage Raymond approached. A master’s student in ecology...

August 10, 2022

TWS2021: Zoos provide healthy painted dogs gene pool

African painted dogs are among the most endangered canids in the world. These predators range widely, albeit thinly, in various pockets of the continent in the wild. The largest contiguous...

February 14, 2022

Gray wolf listing reinstated under Endangered Species Act

Gray wolves are once again listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after a court decision. In the Feb. 10 decision, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White reversed the U.S....

October 15, 2021

Could poachers jeopardize red wolf reintroduction?

An active minority of poachers could be driving red wolves back toward extirpation even though most North Carolinians support the conservation and reintroduction efforts of the experimental population. Surveys reveal...

September 10, 2020

Wild Cam: Asian wild dogs’ diet may aid their conservation

TWS member Jan Kamler has been hot on the trail of the packs of dholes he’s been studying for years in Southeast Asia. Sometimes trekking for months through the rainforests...

July 29, 2020

California’s sole wolf pack has productive litter

California’s only wolf pack took the stay-at-home order to heart and produced a large litter of eight pups. DNA testing showed that there were at least four male gray wolf...

April 7, 2020

Wild Cam: Human activity blocks African wild dog dispersal

Human structures and roadways present some of the largest barriers to the connectivity of endangered African wild dog populations in southern Africa. Researchers set out on a vast multi-country study...