Saving Wild dog

The African wild dogs hardly stay in one place for more than a day or two. A typical wild dog's home range 175 miles. Only a few national parks in Africa are big enough to sustain a healthy population of wild dogs.

Further more, all these national parks have a considerable population of the predators, that is lions. They are kept there just because these are the main attraction for the tourists. This is the cause of making the wild dogs seeking refuge outside the park into the human world. These dogs then conflict with the humans and the story ends with the death of these dogs.

The social behavior of these dogs provide them a little protection from the predators of the area. These dogs, when in the form of a pack, can make a lion to run for its life. But if there is more than one lion, the both parties hardly try to blow the other one down.

There have been many attempts to repopulate these dogs in these parks, but every attempt is followed by a failure, because they are killed by the hands of starvation or by lions within four months. Some others are found dead outside the national parks, killed by the humans.

Recently, there was an attempt made to repopulate these dogs near South Africa's border. The park is marked with a 90 miles fence. This fence is made up of steel. The creators of this park have established a balanced ratio of the predators and the preys. This park includes enough lions to please the tourists. This was done, just to make proper arrangements to stabilize the wild dogs' population, because the lions are enough in Africa but wild dogs are not.

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