Atlas Golden Wolf Project

Research, conservation, and community engagement project with WildCRU aiming to understand and conserve the African golden wolf and Atlas Mountain biodiversity.

[Atlas Golden Wolf Project @AtlasGoldenWolf]

Beautiful golden wolf #cameratrap video in Ifrane National Park. Our study site in the Atlas Mountains is one of the only places where African golden wolves deal with cold snowy winters, contrasting with hot summers. The field team affectionately named this #wolf Shoebee.

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@HWC_Colby Yes! A curious juvenile

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someone spotted one of our #cameratraps!

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#Fieldwork in the #AtlasMountains
Probably not how you imagine African wildlife conservation research!

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@sasiomko

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And a thermal image of a dog for comparison

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Thermal image of an African golden #wolf

@seekthermal @WildCanids

[Atlas Golden Wolf Project @AtlasGoldenWolf]

Thermal image of an African golden #wolf

@seekthermal @WildCanids

[Atlas Golden Wolf Project @AtlasGoldenWolf]

@jenniferhatlauf Cool!
We were using small handheld ones by Seek Thermal: https://t.co/JIUzYXHd4n
I'll post some pictures

[Atlas Golden Wolf Project @AtlasGoldenWolf]

Waiting for the sun to set to start our #mammal surveys in the #AtlasMountains

[Atlas Golden Wolf Project @AtlasGoldenWolf]

Video from @Mongabay by @JohnWendle on AGWP's work surveying #wolf populations & working with shepherds to address both sides of human-predator conflict: preventing livestock attacks but also increasing tolerance towards #carnivores
https://t.co/yuQTrUf94u
@OxZooDept @UniofOxford

[Atlas Golden Wolf Project @AtlasGoldenWolf]

@jenniferhatlauf spotlight and thermal imaging for other carnivores and prey, acoustic for wolves

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“Meet the recently-discovered African golden wolf” - video on golden wolves and the Atlas Golden Wolf Project from @Mongabay & @JohnWendle:
https://t.co/50K6lrWdNn

@LizADCampbell @WildCRU @Ox_Zoo @WildCanids

[Atlas Golden Wolf Project @AtlasGoldenWolf]

Listening for the howls of African golden wolves in the Atlas Mountains

[IUCN Canid SG @WildCanids]

Recommendations of workshop on taxonomy of several Old World Canis taxa - organised by @CIBIO_InBIO & @WildCanids 28th-30th May 2019 @ClaudioSillero @AtlasGoldenWolf
@HimalayanWolves
@jenniferhatlauf
@MihaKrofel
@SennWildGenes @VirantaKovanen

https://t.co/mNhOCnjAHt

[Liz AD Campbell @LizADCampbell]

Thank you #TruePlanet @UniofOxford for covering my work with the @AtlasGoldenWolf Project with @WildCRU_Ox

https://t.co/eTXVKunPQd

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This November was the two year anniversary of Haytem and Samantha here working as research assistants with the Atlas Golden Wolf Project! This winter they are back in the Middle Atlas Mountains to help survey populations of golden wolves, other carnivores, and prey.

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@coywolfassoc We still don’t know much about this new species in North Africa but ecologically they seem to be very similar to coyotes, with an opportunistic omnivorous diet in Morocco of wild boar, livestock, small mammals, reptiles, beetles, fruits, and probably scavenging from garbage.

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@zakhers @coywolfassoc There does not seem to be any overlap of the two species in North Africa, the “golden jackals” in Tunisia would actually be golden wolves. There may be overlap and hybridization in the Sinai Peninsula, but that seems to be the limit of the distribution of Eurasian golden jackals.

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We have just finished translating our nearly 200 interviews on #HumanWildlifeConflict! Huge thank you to research assistants Haytem & Asmae for their very hard work! We are now using these data to better understand conflict in the Middle Atlas Mountains and help develop solutions

[Liz AD Campbell @LizADCampbell]

Canids are incredibly diverse, yet a mated pair is the core of #canid society. Our new paper reviews monogamy in Canidae: social & genetic mating systems, their strange reproductive physiology & how monogamy may relate to canids’ success. #OpenAccess: https://t.co/WU1AkoHv1O