Have you heard of the Black-Backed Jackal? It’s a canid that is found in the southern and eastern regions of Africa. These jackals weigh about 17-25 pounds and are reddish in color with a distinct patch of black fur on their backs. They have a thin, pointed face and large, pointy ears.
Our nation’s carnivores need our help. We’ve stood up for them and spread the word since our start in 1996, looking after the Sawtooth Pack: Wolves of the Nez Perce. We’ve spread awareness about wolves and built a community of dedicated people, like you, that have fallen in love with wolves and stood with us when it comes to protecting one of our most important apex predators.
You know that animals like whales and seals are capable of holding their breath for a long time. But how do they do it? They’ve evolved to live the majority of the time in the water, and yet still breathe air as we do. So what evolution allowed them to hold their...
When you think about threatened or endangered species, what do you usually think of? The efforts to save them? The risk of them becoming extinct in the wild? When it comes to extinction, there’s extinction in which the population gets so low that the animal then disappears from the wild forever, and then there’s functional extinction.
You know that wolves are integral to their ecosystems. Without them, vegetation gets decimated by herbivores, disease spreads through prey populations more easily, erosion occurs, and more. With them, balance is maintained and ecosystems thrive.
When we look at carnivores and herbivores, there are many differences between the two. When we look at their skulls, we can see these differences even more clearly and up close. Two major differences are eye placement and teeth