Free-Ranging Dogs and Wildlife Conservation
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780199663217
Subjects: Wildlife conservation; Dogs, behavior
Description: Dogs are the world's most common and widespread carnivores and are nearly ubiquitous across the globe. The vast majority of these dogs, whether owned, pure-bred or stray, spend a large portion of their life as unconfined, free-roaming animals, persisting at the interface of human and wildlife communities. Their numbers are particularly large throughout the developing world. This book provides a review of the effects of dogs on native wildlife species.