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Sanetti Plateau in Ethiopia. Ethiopian wolf with Helichrysum citrispinum - both are endemic species. The Sanetti Plateau is a major plateau of the Ethiopian Highlands, in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. The plateau is the highest part of the Bale Mountains, and is located within Bale Mountains National Park. [1]
It was once hunted by sportsmen, though this is now illegal. Vehicle collisions killed at least four wolves in the Sanetti Plateau since 1988, while two others were left with permanent limps. Similar accidents are a risk in areas where roads cut across wolf habitats, such as in Menz and Arsi. [27]
The park encompasses an area of approximately 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) in the Bale Mountains and Sanetti Plateau of the Ethiopian Highlands. The park's Afromontane habitats have one of the highest incidences of animal endemicity of any terrestrial habitat in the world. The park was nominated to the World Heritage Tentative List in 2009. [1] [2]
The Bale Mountains are home to many of Ethiopia's endemic animals, notably the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis), found on the Sanetti Plateau.The park also contains the Harenna Forest, situated to the south of the mountains, which is a largely unexplored area thought [by whom?] to contain many undiscovered species of reptile as well as lions, leopards, hyenas and various types of antelope.
The Harenna Forest was once habitat to packs of the endangered painted hunting dog, Lycaon pictus. However, the presence of this canid is now in question here due to the population pressures of expanding human presence.[4] The central Sanetti Plateau is home to the largest population of the rare and endangered Ethiopian wolf.
Wolves. Specifically two wolves at a sanctuary near Lititz, Pennsylvania who seemed perfect at home during the first snow of the season. They were built for this! The winter is truly their time.
Original – Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis citernii) on the Sanetti Plateau of the Ethiopian Highlands. Reason High quality large image of rare endangered animal. Illustrates article well (more appropriate than Commons FP) Articles in which this image appears Ethiopian wolf FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals ...
The subalpine heathlands and alpine moorlands of the Sanetti Plateau are home to the largest population of the rare and endangered Ethiopian wolf. The Bale Mountains vervet (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) is limited to the upper Harenna Forest and other nearby forests. Its diet consists mostly of Yushania alpina bamboo shoots. [7]