喜马拉雅狼狗杂交种对狼群和人类构成威胁

In Ladakh, Himalayan wolves are breeding with feral dogs, giving rise to a new animal known as khipshang, finds Adam Popescu THERE’S no doubt. The greyish coat, the effortless trot over soft snow, the way it stops, stalks, then strikes, picking off a marmot and ending it with one bite: it’s a wolf. When wolves and people are forced to share space, competition over resources arises, and so does interaction with dogs, says Carter Niemeyer, a trapper who captured the Canadian wolves that were reintroduced to Yellowstone and Idaho in the 1990s. That’s why the widespread threat of species dilution makes him emphatic that wolf-dogs shouldn’t “be allowed to procreate and run wild”. …