Tayla, 6:22 jackals, 10:26 Tayla, 21:28 bird, 27:18 tree branch, 29:09 snail, 33:16 Tayla, 39:23 birds.
Painted Wolf translates to Lycaon Pictus their scientific name since the year 1827.
Lycaon is Greek for a Germanic word Wolf, Latin Lupus, packs are led by an alpha pair, cannot be domesticated, or breed with domestic Canis Dogs.
In 1879 Southern African Government passed a Vagrant-Dog Tax, painted wolves, Bantu dogs, hyenas, jackals, foxes, without a Dog Tag were shot/poisoned.
From 1916 to 1970s the Rhodesian government paid for ‘VERMIN WILD DOG’ pelts, thousands of painted wolves were killed.
Africa has 5 genera of undomesticated canids, Lycaon-painted wolves, Lupulella-jackals, Otocyon-fox, Vulpes-fox, Canis-gray wolves
RE: NIH; Bovine tuberculosis spread to South Africa and other colonies with the importation of cattle from Europe in the early 1800s and was first diagnosed in a bovine in South Africa in 1880
Challenges for controlling bovine tuberculosis in South Africa
Onderstepoort J Vet Res. 2020; 87(1): 1690.
Published online 2020 Feb 27. doi: 10.4102/ojvr.v87i1.1690
https : // www. ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/ pmc/articles / PMC7059242/
Africa has 5 genera of undomesticated canids, Lycaon-painted wolves, Lupulella-jackals, Otocyon-fox, Vulpes-fox, Canis-wolves.
Wolf, Noun, pre-12th century, from Old High German wolf, Latin lupus, Greek lykos.
Led by a alpha pair that live and hunt as a pack.
Dog, pre-12th century, from old English, docga; domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) Latin Canis, the only domesticated hybrid of the 38 named Canis-hybrids.
Canid (1889).
Painted Wolves IUCN Red List since 1990 facing extinction in the wild.
Africa averages 1,400; South Africa 372, GKNP 163, adult painted wolves – IUCN Red List population decreasing;
African Journal of Wildlife Research, KZN, Limpopo, Mpumalanga 79.
EWT: on GKNP lions cause 90% of painted wolves deaths, off Reserve humans cause 96%.
EWT: on GKNP painted wolves have a average lifespan of only 3 years
AJWR – 20 year study from 2020.
Number of adults: 90–111.
Number of adults in largest subpopulation: 48.
Number of severely fragmented subpopulations: 14.
The colonial names for Southern African canines, like the colonial names for human ethnicities, looks very confused to a modern eye. In many sources, Europeans called hyenas ‘wolves’, jackals ‘foxes’, painted wolves ‘hyenas’.
RE: Canis Africanis: A Dog History of Southern Africa, Lance Van Sittert, Sandra Scott Swart, BRILL, 2008
SA history, San, Bantu, Dutch arrive in 1652, British in 1795; in the Western Cape painted wolves were misidentified as hyenas RE: SANBI;
In 1820 Hyaena Picta; In 1827 Lycaon Pictus translates to painted wolf were found throughout sub-Saharan Africa
IUCN African Parks wild animal populations, Painted Wolves 1,400 Adults, and decreasing; Black Rhino 5,500; Cheetah 7,000; White Rhino 21,000; Lion 34,000; Spotted Hyena 47,000; Giraffe 97,000; Impala 2 Million
Africa once had over 500,000 painted wolves, packs of 100 were common, humans and lions are the main threats to painted wolves
painted wolves are not ‘vicious, brutal, savage’ they are only trying to survive, painted wolves (Lycaon pictus) are not feral dogs (Canis familiaris) or hyenas
there are no records of painted wolves attacking humans in the wild
painted wolves do not fight over food, and will help feed their injured pack members
the regional ‘wild dog’ name contributes to the common misconception that painted wolves (Lycaon pictus) are feral dogs (Canis familiaris)
painted wolves have powerful jaws with specialized carnassial teeth to quickly slice and consume prey before kleptoparasites arrive, the prey dies quickly from shock or loss of blood
San Diego Zoo, painted wolf size height 39″, weight 75 lbs, run 37 mph for 3 miles: Arctic gray wolf hgt 31″, wgt 125 lbs; Mexican gray wolf hgt 32″, wgt 80 lbs; Bergman’s Rule, animals in cold regions are bulkier.
Researchgate com
A 20-Year Review of the Status and Distribution of African Painted Wolves (Lycaon pictus) in South Africa
February 2020 African Journal of Wildlife Research 50(1):8
DOI:10.3957/056.050.0008
South Africa is one of only seven countries with a viable population of African painted wolves (Lycaon pictus).
The national population in 2017 was 372 adults and yearlings and comprised three subpopulations:
1) Kruger National Park (Kruger),
2) an intensively metapopulation established through reintroductions into isolated, fenced reserves, and
3) a free-roaming population that occurs naturally outside protected areas.
We assessed the long-term (four painted wolves generations, ∼20 years) trends in population size and growth rate within each of these three subpopulations.
We found that Kruger supports a substantial population, which has declined over time.
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