Manuel Lara talks about the \u201cImportance of superpredators\u201d in ecosystems.<\/i><\/p>\n
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| \n \n \n Canis lupus baileyi (Nelson & Goldman, 1929)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n \n | \n \n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Order:<\/strong> Carnivora<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Family<\/strong>: Canidae<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n HABITAT<\/strong><\/p>\n Currently it is only found living in the wild in Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua; while in captivity there are around 200 individuals distributed in 48 breeding facilities in the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n RECOVERY EFFORTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the most endangered mammals in North America; by the mid-1980s, hunting, trapping, and poisoning caused the extinction of wolves in the wild, with only a handful remaining in captivity. Since then, for over four decades, the U.S. and Mexican governments, with the help of some non-profit organizations, have worked to recover the popula- tion of the Mexican wolf. In 1998, wolves were reintroduced into the wild as part of a federal reintroduction program under the Endangered Species Act. As a result of these efforts, in 2017 it was estimated that there were at least 143 individuals currently living in the wild in both countries, and about 240 in captive-breeding facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n REFERENCES:<\/strong><\/p>\n Center for Biological Diversity (s.f.). “NATURAL HISTORY – MEXICAN GRAY WOLF”. https:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/species\/mammals\/ Mexican_gray_wolf\/natural_history.html <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manuel Lara talks about the \u201cImportance of superpredators\u201d in ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-files","category-plantae-and-fauna"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22221,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22218\/revisions\/22221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |