#maremma

Dog days of August Day 5 - Maremma

Middle Island is so close to the mainland that foxes can cross over at low tide. The penguin colony crashed from about 600 birds in 1999 to fewer than 10 by 2005; one research paper says only 4 birds were recorded arriving to breed that year. After the Maremma guardian dogs started work in 2006, the island had no recorded fox attacks while the dogs were there, and the colony reached an estimated 180 penguins in the 2016–2017 breeding season. In 2017, some penguins arrived before the dogs returned, foxes attacked again, and the attacks stopped once Eudy and Tula, the guardian dogs, came back.

La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)

Ambrella della Vergherie, maremma, born in Italy 1972

Date: 1982

If you are wondering why I'm not drawing in my regular style, that's because I need to switch it up in order to retain my sanity

Verhoef-Verhallen, Esther J.J. The Dog Encyclopedia, by Esther J.J. Verhoef-Verhallen, Firefly Books Ltd., 1997, p. 26.

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