CIENFUEGOS, Cuba, Dec 14 (acn) A group of scientists working for the
Cuban Environmental Agency started a study on wild dogs, whose attacks
on cattle herds in central Cienfuegos province have grown recently.
Cuban News Agency
Dalexis Hernández, head of La Sierrita cattle raising enterprise, told
ACN that the number of attacks of packs of wild dogs to calves and sick
cows even within ranches and parcels are increasing rapidly, therefore
the need of the study to learn how to face this threat.
He said they are working on gathering information for the CEA
researchers on the number of victims in the southern Cienfuegos region,
including those that were killed immediately and those that died later
as a consequence of bites and the resulting infections.
Efrain Cedeño, a wild dog hunter with 20 years of experience, explained
that the Canis lupus familiares, the scientific name of these wild dogs,
move in packs following a leader, and their hunting areas are far from
inhabited areas.
María Araujo, head of the CEA in this province, said the recent
affectations to cattle herds forced them to create a task force to study
the wild dogs' habitats, their interaction with the environment,
dwelling places and habits.
Cuban wild dogs are the descendants of those brought by Spaniards
colonizers that ran away from the ranches into the forests and evolved
into a new race. They have stronger teeth, more pointed noses, and
stronger claws than their domestic brethren.
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