Certain north areas of range wild dog is occupied by species in Senegal, Benin, Sierra Leone, Gwinea, Gwinea Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Tchad, Sudan, southern areas of Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and a few other isolate populations. Current living saharan wild dog is not confirmed by any science way, but local story it that exist there. Koen de Smet confirm difference between a few population of african wild dogs. Some unrecognized canine appeared also in Eritrea. Heuvelmans confirm in Sahara some “wolves” in 1986. It is possible that adjule know by tuaregs in Mauretania and western Mali is also wild dogs (Lycaon sp.). Koen de Smet, belgian biologist research in Ahaggar Mountains with Farid Belbachir wrote me lately by email that there live also some “mountain fennec” know by local people, but there not confirm taxonomy these canines and he waiting for camera trap’s photo, there found also scats and signs some unrecognized canines, not know for Africa and signs of mountain dwelling ruppell’s foxes. It is possilbe a distinct species of canid. Some egyptain jackals found in Eritrea, in coastal desert in 2004, know as Danakil desert, local people call them as wucharia, what mean a wolf. Egyptain wolf is now consider as Canis aureus lupaster and are recognize as subspecies of golden jackal, but some authors and future study can confirm a new status of its canines, native to northern Africa, mainly desert regions.
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