African+wild+dog,+DawsonS.

 //My animal is the African Wild D ////og t ////he animal lives in the middle and south part of Africa in the woodlands and dense bush to open plains. The African wild dog's diet is antelope, zebras, wildebeest, springboks, gazelles and impala. The animals that eat them are lions and hyenas. Mixturity comes around one year but usually happens later in age. Mate around June. The dominate male and Female will be the only ones to give birth to 2-20 pups each year.The female's gestation period is around 70 days. The female will watch the pups for two months while the pack supplies food for her and her pups. The dogs come from the canidae family like most dogs and their top speed is 45mph. Packs will consist of around 10 dogs. There are around 5,000 in the wild today. Today they are endangered because of habitat loss, human persecution (hunting and poisoning), disease from domestic animals. //

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Many Africa wild dogs have died because habitat loss from humans, farmers killing them for threatening livestock. The IUCN statues is endangered C2a(i) ver 3.1 this means that they are slightly endangered and losing their population. In order to keep these animals alive many regions have started to contribute, the first way to help them is by tracking their movements with trackers. Another ways is by surveying how many are left in many countries, they are trying to reduce conflict between farmers and African wild dogs. They are also trying to stop the spread of disease between the dogs and domestic animals, also to prevent dogs from moving long distances away from their habitat.

"What could I do to help them" We could offer free car washes and ask for donations for the African wild dog that endangered. We could do it on a weekend with friends and family to gel raise around $200 for the dogs.

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