Africa's Wild Dogs
Africa's Wild Dogs

Author: Jocelin Kagan

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781913159191

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There are roughly 6,600 wild dogs left in Africa yet they have cast such a spell on top wildlife photographer and naturalist Jocelin Kagan that she is determined to help save them. If left to their own devices, they are more than capable of thriving, as this sumptuous photographic natural history shows. Jocelin has called in world experts to add their latest findings about these resourceful, graceful and highly skilled family groups. Nomadic predators whose territories range thousands of kilometres, they hunt co-operatively, preying on small herbivores. Non-confrontational, they form complex bonds as this book reveals. Now restricted to small populations and threatened by some shoot-to-kill policies, habitat fragmentation, diseases from domestic dogs, climate change and snares, as well as natural predation from hyenas and lions, Africa's wild dogs will be supported by all the royalties from this book.

The African Wild Dog
The African Wild Dog

Author: IUCN/SSC Candid Specialist Group

Publisher: IUCN

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 2831704189

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Over the last 30 years the African wild dog population has declined dramatically. Dogs have disappeared from 25 of the 39 countries where they were previously found, and only 6 populations are believed to number more than 100. Today it is believed that only between 3,000-5,500 dogs remain in 600-1,000 packs with most to be found in eastern and southern Africa. The dramatic reduction in their population is attributed to a number of factors including human population growth and activities, deterioration of habitat, and contact with domestic dogs and their diseases. This Action Plan explores some of the reasons behind their disappearance and provides a number of proposed solutions split into 3 priority areas, ranging from habitat management and conservation to monitoring domestic dogs.

Wild Dogs and Their Relatives
Wild Dogs and Their Relatives

Author: Peter Jackson

Publisher: IUCN

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9782831700472

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Discusses the status and conservation of wild canids, including wild dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, zorros, and dingos.

Wild Dogs
Wild Dogs

Author: Jennifer W. Sheldon

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 148326369X

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Wild Dogs: The Natural History of the Nondomestic Canidae presents a comprehensive, current natural history of the nondomestic dog species. In this book, a prodigious amount of previously uncollected information is presented in a straightforward form. The organization of the book is alphabetical by genus, and, within each genus, alphabetically by Linnean species name. In some cases, very little is known about a species. In other cases, the amount of available information is enormous, and has been distilled to summary form. The volume is intended as a straightforward assemblage of material. It points the way toward, but is not intended to provide, a synthetic or theoretical big picture. The book is intended as a general reference work. Biologists, wildlife managers, mammalogists, conservationists, students, and carnivore specialists will find here information assembled nowhere else. Over 600 sources are included in the bibliography, so the book also serves as an entry to the literature for those seeking more technical or specialized knowledge. Naturalists and outdoorsmen will also enjoy discovering the particulars of familiar and unfamiliar canid species.

Wild Dogs: A Novel
Wild Dogs: A Novel

Author: Helen Humphreys

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2006-06-17

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0393345319

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“A perspective on love and loss [that] will haunt you for days.”—Entertainment Weekly Alice's boyfriend abandons her dog, which joins a feral pack. Every evening, Alice and five others gather at the forest's edge, trying to call their dogs back. Most have similar tales of jealousy or vengeance enacted upon them through their dogs: Jamie is rebelling against his stepfather; Lily, who has suffered brain damage, is considered irresponsible. Becoming more deeply involved, Alice moves out to a cabin on land owned by Malcolm, one of the group, whose motives in having her there are suspicious. As she falls in love with the wildlife biologist whose wolf has gained lead of the pack, she feels the tug between love's wild power and her desire to domesticate it. After a tragic accident, all members of the group must rethink their lives and find their places in an untamed world. Wild Dogs strips away the conventions of love and passion to reveal deeper, richer truths.

Of Wild Dogs
Of Wild Dogs

Author: Jane Taylor

Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781919930848

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Something nasty is coming out of the woodwork at the Museum ... and in the lonely bushveld, it's not only Nature that's red in tooth and claw. This sparkling first novel by respected academic Jane Taylor is a whodunnit with local flavour and postmodern flair. An artist at the Museum is dead: sharp-tongued Hannah, a former exile, whose passions turn out to be fatal. Three very different people must combine forces to uncover her murderer: Ewan Christopher, Hannah's former lover and a British journalist, out of his depth in the new South Africa; Inspector Cicero Matyobeni, the world-weary policeman from Khayelitsha, holding on to his compassion for dear life; and the beautiful but insecure pathologist, Helena de Villiers, who is becoming perhaps too personally involved ... The action moves from the Company Gardens of Cape Town to the wild grasslands of the Limpopo Province, in a complex and clever plot, full of red herrings and puns, and peopled by academics, chiefs, corrupt businessmen, sangomas, ex-security policemen, car-guards and a Greek goddess or two.

Sochi Wild Dogs
Sochi Wild Dogs

Author: Icy Rivers

Publisher: JB Associates AvantLifeGuard Books

Published: 2015-03-25

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 131117995X

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Oleg and Olga risk their lives to save their friends, the Wild Dogs of Sochi, facing execution on the eve of the Sochi Olympics.

African Wild Dogs
African Wild Dogs

Author: Jane P. Gardner

Publisher: Bearport Publishing

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1617729701

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With their large, round ears, patchwork coat, and bone-crunching jaws, African wild dogs are some of the most distinctive animals roaming the African plains. And their pups are among the cutest of all canines! African wild dogs live in large packs, led by a male and female. The female gives birth to her pups in an underground den, and she and other members of the pack work together to care for and protect the furry babies until they are big enough to hunt for prey on their own. In this coming-of-age introduction to African wild dogs, readers will see how these pups learn how to hunt and live in a pack. The lively text, colorful pages, and exquisite photos are sure to delight and engage emergent readers.

The Wild Side of Pet Dogs
The Wild Side of Pet Dogs

Author: Jo Waters

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781410910189

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Get a close-up look at how dogs can be wild. This book looks at why dogs live the way they do (e.g. what they eat in the wild) and uses this as the starting point for giving appropriate pet care information. The unique perspectives of these books come from emphasizing the close links between pets and wild animals.

In Danger!
In Danger!

Author: Daphne Tuboku-Metzger

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780435898595

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One of a series exploring issues of interest to children in Africa, and designed to introduce students to reading non-fiction for pleasure and information.