Trade these two predator/prey cards together: Yesterday’s Ethiopian Wolf and Today’s Endangered All-Star, the Big-Headed Mole Rat. Evolving together in the high-alpine meadows of Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains, wolf and rodent serve each others’ purposes, with the Mole Rat providing the preferred meal of the wolf and keeping the rolling grasslands Read More
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World’s Most Endangered Dog
April 4, 2010
Today’s Endangered All-Star is the Ethiopian Wolf, the world’s most threatened canid, with scattered populations totaling around 550 animals left on earth. The species has fallen victim to habitat fragmentation, with remaining wolves left on mountaintops, surrounded by lands converted to agriculture.
Conservationists recently organized an urgent vaccination program to protect the population Read More