This looks like it’s going to be a great wildlife documentary. Check out Nyala Productions’s website for more info.
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One little quibble. There are actually two wolves in Ethiopia.
There is the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis), which is the creature that will be the focus of this documentary, and there is also the newly discovered African wolf subspecies (Canis lupus lupaster). This African wolf subspecies was once regarded as a suspecies of golden jackal, but through sampling some supposed golden jackals in the Ethiopian Highlands, it was determined that they actually represented an ancient mitochondrial matriline within Canis lupus.
This African wolf should also not be confused with Xenocyon lycanonoides, which is an extinct canid that is sometimes called “the African wolf.” It is actually the ancestor of the African wild dog, but its range was quite extensive in Africa and Eurasia until around 800,000 years ago. It continued to live on in Africa, where it evolved into its smaller current form.
People come before dogs. Even if the dogs are wild.
Well, that’s the solution. People need family planning. People also need tourist dollars to go see the Ethiopian wolves.
I would hate it if this were the first wild dog species to go extinct in modern times.
There’s a piece of me that wishes humans would go extinct. That’s why I’m not having children.
People probably wouldn’t exist with the civlization we have now if it weren’t for dogs. We ought to give some back, don’t you think? And overpopulation by people damages other people even more than it does wildlife. We aren’t obliged to occupy every square inch of the planet, nor to use it’s bounty until it’s a mere rind.
Peggy Richter.
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