Table 2.

Seasonal differences in the frequency of occurrence (FO) of food items in the diet of African wolves at Guassa as determined by scat analysis.

	dry (n = 175)		wet (n = 175)		combined
food items	n	% FO	n	% FO	n	% FO
rodents	164	53.2	137	42.0	301	47.2
Ethiopian hares (Lepus fagani)	5	1.6	9	2.8	14	2.2
livestock (hunted or scavenged)	24	7.8	85	26.1	109	17.2
duikers	0	0.0	3	0.9	3	0.5
wild birds	7	2.3	5	1.5	12	1.9
domestic chickens	0	0.0	7	2.1	7	1.1
unidentified bones	31	10.1	25	7.7	56	8.9
insects (mostly grasshoppers)	46	14.9	25	7.7	71	11.2
graminoids	14	4.5	3	0.9	17	2.7
potatoes	6	1.9	2	0.6	8	1.2
soil	11	3.5	25	7.7	36	5.7
total	308	100	326	100	634	100