This Week's Post: The Wild Dogs of North America

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The Wild Dogs of North America

Here's a page from my hand-lettered wildlife textbook titled Wa-Maka-Skan: Fundamentals of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. This page introduces students to the eight species of wild canids on the North American continent. See also the blog post from December 26, 2012.

Wildlife Textbook: The Wild Canids

From one of my hand-lettered textbooks titled Wa-Maka-Skan: Fundamentals of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, this page summarizes the diversity of wild dogs in North America.  These members of the Family Canidae display in their body size and in the sizes of their appendages (e.g. tails and ears) the effects of natural selection operating in various environments (north to south, cold to warm). 

A page from Wa-Maka-Skan, a hand-lettered wildlife ecology textbook by Fred Montague. © 1996, 2012.