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| Canis simensis Ruppell, 1840 |
The Ethiopian Wolf (Canis simensis), also known as the Abyssinian Wolf, Simien Jackal or Simien Fox, is one of the rarest and most endangered of all canids, and is found in the Afro- alpine regions of Ethiopia, about 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) above sea level. Only about twelve populations, totaling about 550 adults, remain.
Claudio Sillero-Zubiri at the University of Oxford is the zoologist most closely associated with efforts to save this species of wolfThe Wolf or Grey Wolf Canis lupus is a mammal of the Canidae family and the ancestor of the domestic dog. Wolves once had an almost worldwide distribution, but are now limited primarily to North America, Eurasia, and the Middle East. Their preference on h, particularly with his work for an oral rabiesThis article is about the infectious disease. For the 1989 album by industrial band Skinny Puppy, see Rabies (album). Rabies (from a Latin word meaning rage , is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in animals and people. It can affect most spec vaccinesyringe containing the influenza vaccine. A vaccine (named after vaccinia, the infectious agent of cowpox, which, when inoculated, provides protection against smallpox) is used to prepare a human or animal's immune system to defend the body against a spec to protect them from the disease passed from local dogsThis article discusses the domestic dog. For other members of the dog family, see Canidae. The dog is a canine omnivorous mammal that has been domesticated for somewhere between 14,000 and 150,000 years. In those millennia, the dog has developed into hund. A rabies outbreak in 1990 reduced the largest known population, found in the Bale Mountains National Park , from about 440 wolves to less than 160 in only two weeks.