M. CSIC question that the attacks on livestock are caused by wolves and wild dogs blamed.
Researchers at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) have found evidence suggesting that some of the attacks attributed to wolves to livestock could actually have been caused by wild dogs.
For the research, recently published in the journal Animal Conservation, "published by the Zoological Society of London, officials collected stool samples likely belong to wolves in 2003 and 2004 in a particular area: between, ffxiv gil, northern and western Burgos Alava, an area where attacks are frequent in cattle.
After undergoing several molecular analysis, the results concluded that most of the droppings belonged to wild dogs and that up to 32 percent of their diet consisted of sheep, compared with 3.3 percent representing these animals in the lupine diet.
"The appearance of domestic prey is much higher in, fallen earth chips, dogs and, instead, prrably wolves consume wild prey," explained Jorge Echegaray, a researcher at the CSIC in the Donana Biological Station, who, moreover, has stressed that in the feces dogs are "both wild and domestic prey, which ruled that the case of individuals fed artificially."
In total, the researchers collected 136 droppings, from which, through molecular analysis techniques, they, darkfall gold, managed to identify the source of 86: 31 dog and 53 wolf is the first time in the country in which these techniques are used to identify canids droppings.
In light of these data, I emphasize that Echegaray could be a "significant disproportion" in the awarding of damages, given that 95 percent of attacks are assigned to wolves, although it is very difficult to differentiate them from the dog.
He recalled that the payments to farmers are only paid in case of attacks by wolves, therefore, any domestic dog attacks "would broaden the economic costs associated with conservation of the wolf."
The researcher emphasized that one of the conservation problems of large carnivores is the conflict with livestock, which contributes to the negative perception about the wolf.
So, I point to in recent times, and this type of justification, only in the province of Alava have four copies of a wolf killed a year and perform 300 raids of eradication, 74 percent of which were outside season hunting skills. He also recalled that there are control patrols aimed at pursuing wolves.
Similarly, stressed that in other countries where there is no population of wolves, such as the UK, wild dogs killed annually an average of 30,000 sheep and 10,000 lambs, representing a loss of around 2.5 million euros.