After talking about the many rare dog breeds in the world in the cold zone, I think you may be interested in another dog breed in extreme climatic conditions; in hot Africa, there is a very good dog breed, which is the African Mastiff.
Author: Agnes Buchwald
South Africa is the largest country in Africa, covering an area of 1221037 square kilometers. According to 2011 statistics, the total population is about 505586757 (of which 79.5% are black, 9% are white, and 11.5% are other races). The administrative capital of South Africa is Pretoria, but the largest city is Johannesburg.
Many archaeological studies and discoveries prove that Africa is the cradle of humanity. Serious research theories also support the African origin theory. In a study of the genetic diversity of 53 human skulls from different parts of the world, a team of researchers found some ample evidence to support this view. What some anthropologists call the African origin theory refers to the earlier Homo erectus tribes, followed by the dispersed homo sapiens who migrated out of Africa and eventually evolved into human civilization. This wave of migration swept across the world and lasted for tens of thousands of years. In the process, a small group of primitive people—such as Neanderthals (aka cavemen)—eventually disappeared.
Modern humans have lived in South Africa for at least 170,000 years. Before european tentacles reached Africa, the original and famous local people were the Bantu people, who migrated here from other parts of Africa about 1,000 years ago. The two main historical ethnic groups are the Xhosa and The Zulus.
Before Europeans came to Africa, local "modern people" had lived for more than 100,000 years. We found these oldest human remains in the Sith River Caves in the Eastern Cape. They are over 100,000 years old. In eastern South Africa, scientists have also found a small amount of blue-green algae dating back 3.5 billion years. This is strong evidence of the earliest signs of life that exist on Earth.
Archaeologists in South Africa have proven that it was a farming and pastoral people who came here with the Iron Age civilization, making the entire African continent a huge and complex archaeological treasure trove.
In 1652, the Dutch navigator Zan Van Ribeck, with ninety sailors, landed from the Cape of Good Hope under the guidance of the Dutch East India Company, and since then the life of the local tribe has changed. Soon, the locals gradually began to suspect that the man and the sailors he had brought with him were a great threat to themselves. Probably from about 1657, the emergence of brutal African slavery gave them a threatening signal. This is a sad and shameful event in history, and it can be said that it is a subject worthy of separate study.
In the early eighteenth century, officials in the Cape Colony encouraged emigration, and some independent peasants known as trekboers or simply boers (dutch colonists or descendants of colonists in South Africa included Calvinists, Flemishes, French Huguenots, and Protestants in Germany and England) emigrated there during government regulation of the Cape of Good Hope (1652–1795).
A small group of European races also contributed to the establishment of a new state.
Over the centuries, South Africans have built highly competitive modern kingdoms. In 1992, the repeal of restrictive legislation came into force. Political groups in the country began negotiating regulations with minority whites, and white voters supported consultations on the right to vote.
Nelson Mandela, the leader of Africa's leaders and South Africa's first democratically elected president, is one of the few politicians to be widely recognized and acclaimed.
On 11 February 1990, Mandela was sentenced to 27 years in prison for maintaining a tough stance on race.
Mandela fought to the end for the policy of apartheid, and his imprisonment on Robben Island symbolized a struggle of oppressed peoples around the world. In recognition of Mandela's unwavering fight for the morality and fairness of the people, in 1993 he and the former President of South Africa, F.W. Mandela, were appointed to fight for morality and fairness. De Klerk was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In June 2004, Mandela announced his retirement and officially withdrew from the public eye.
In addition to Mandela, South Africa has also produced many famous and important figures. Dr Christian Barnard of Grutscu Hospital in Cape Town became the first person in the world to perform a successful heart transplant in 1967, and was the first doctor to perform a heart-lung transplant. South African activist Desmond Tutu won worldwide praise for his fight against racial discrimination in the 1980s. He was the first black archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa.
South Africa is rich in gold and diamonds, and if anyone wants to travel to Africa and see the strange landscapes and sights, South Africa is undoubtedly a tourist destination that will amaze you.
Flat-topped Mountain is covered with more than 1,500 species of vegetation, more than the entire Uk uk combined. Kruger National Park has the most diverse wildlife on the African continent.
South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique are working together to create a 13,500-square-mile wildlife source reserve that will become the largest in the world.
South Africa is the only country in the world to voluntarily abandon its nuclear weapons program and is also a world leader in coal and minerals. Nearly 90% of the world's platinum metals and nearly 41% of gold are produced in South Africa.
The world's largest diamond, the cullinan diamond, was also found in South Africa. Its uncut weight is up to 3106.75 carats. After cutting, one of the famous African Stars weighs 530.2 carats.
There are too many rare treasures on this magical continent of Africa, "the largest" and "the smallest", but I still highly recommend the Poper dog I want to introduce to you today, the African Mastiff, which is of course a flawless treasure in the world dog breed.
In 1503, Antonio de Chaldaùha discovered the Cape of Good Hope during his voyage to Portugal. In the seventeenth century, the Portuguese were forced to leave the Cape of Good Hope due to the invasion of the British and dutch.
It is now widely believed that the above-mentioned Zan Van Ribek, the father of afrikaanerdom discovery, set out from Texel with his family and the bullenbijter (a guard dog) and landed at the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa in 1952 in response to some unknown risk factors on land.
In English, bullenbijter is equivalent to bullenbeisser (primitive bulldog), which is the ancestor of dog breeds such as boxer dogs, mastiffs, bull-headed mastiffs, etc.
The ancient Assyrians used mastiffs for hunting, guarding, and warfare. King Xerxes I of Persia also used mastiffs in the war against Greece, which ended in defeat and was owned by Greece as a trophy. Marco Polo also described the situation in which 5,000 stout mastiffs were kept in kennels, used to assist in hunting or to participate in the wars waged by Kublai Khan.
It is believed that the ancestors of the English Mastiff were created by the Phoenicians. The British have been using mastiffs for centuries, and Henry VIII has been documented to have given 400 mastiffs to Charles V of Spain as guards for the castle.
In 667, the African dog was introduced by Assyrian Banipal. However, after they have been breeding on this land for thousands of years, it is likely that this ancient mastiff dog mated and reproduced with various types of dog breeds unknown in the local area, resulting in the current Breed of African Mastiff.
After interbreeding with many aggressive dog breeds, there was finally a suitable mastiff dog, the African Mastiff, which was considered the most heroic and warlike combat dog of the time.
The Dutch East India Company successfully established trading posts and colonies, making the South African continent their own autonomous land. The settlers were known as free citizens (also known as free Boers). These people had the right to run their own farms, and in 1655 Van Ribeck issued an official document for this purpose.
The early troops had entered colonial rule and began in the form of free states. The settlers who came from these immigrants also brought large dogs to serve as guards.
De Bour's famous diamond mining company imported a large number of bull-headed mastiffs to protect the safety of its mines, and then there were many hybrid breeds.
The name of the mining company was de boers, and the settlers were free burghers, and the combination of the two was simply called "boers", which later became Africans.
It is said that when Van Ribeck came to the Cape of Good Hope with the original Bulldog, he discovered that a local tribe called Hotundu also had a strong and powerful dog breed that looked half wild and half domestic. Perhaps, the original Bulldog was crossbred with the breed of Hotendo.
Over time, many miners, immigrant farmers, investors and merchants came to the Cape of Good Hope, and they did not forget to bring the best guard dogs for protection along the way. These dogs were also bred in the early days of the African mastiff, and they inherited their corresponding temperament, intelligence, and behavior.
It has been said that among the African wild dogs, there are a number of other dog breeds that play a crucial role in the development of the African Mastiff dog breed; they are the Neapolitan Mastiff, the St. Bernard, the Azahuac, the Great Dane, the Brebit, the Danish Brohoma Mastiff, the Bulldog, the Ancient English Mastiff, the Italian Kaslo, and a number of other Mastiff breeds.
Eventually, the word boer ("boer") was formed from a combination of the word "afrikanns dutch" and "boel" (the closest meaning "collective name for a group of dogs"), and the breed was named boerboel(African mastiff).
The African mastiff is a reliable, docile, obedient, and intelligent dog breed that looks strong and strong, with strong guarding and guarding instincts. It is also very confident and fearless.
The African mastiff dog type was a hunting and fighting dog breed as early as the 17th century. Today's African mastiffs have been gradually developed by farmers from the old "basic" type to a trusted protector of the safety of families, livestock and property.
The strong African Mastiff is a very good family dog, it is loyal, can do its duty, and effectively protect the safety of the family and the house. They are also known as "poodles" or "fearless dogs". In fact, such dogs may fight to the death to protect the family, the herd, or any property it considers to be "owned by itself."
Although the African Mastiff is a hunting dog like the Rhodria Ridgeback, it is also a very good defensive dog. In fact, it is the only dog breed in the world that breeds specifically for the purpose of protecting the family, and it took more than 350 years for the Bohr farmers to succeed through continuous screening and breeding.
We must remember that African mastiffs breed in a desolate wild land where there are many carnivores such as baboons, hyenas, leopards, lions and jaguars. Not only do they have to protect their families and livestock from these carnivores, but they also have to learn to hunt and prey on their own. It is said that the African mastiff also attacked the lions one-on-one.
The African mastiff is truncated in order to avoid an adversary such as the baboon from grabbing its tail and attacking, or it will lose the battle.
Bohr farmers may not breed African mastiffs that will roar and be irritable to family members. The reason is that the African mastiff also has a task of guarding and protecting children. If they were timid or angry, the peasants would immediately isolate them, after all, in the difficult times of the time, there could not be too aggressive or too timid dogs. The peasant workers expected the dogs to perform their duties in their absence.
In the past, South Africans did not treat African mastiffs as pets – more recently, as the lion and cattle population has declined, the breed was also endangered in the seventies.
In 1980, South Africa conducted a nationwide search to find about 250 Mastiffs, of which 72 days were selected to breed as breeding dogs, thus avoiding the extinction of the breed.
In 1983, sabba was founded, and the organization's primary goal was to apply the African mastiff to become a purebred dog. All the founders were breeders of The African Mastiff, and they shared a common goal and vision to perpetuate the breed, as its existence represented an inseparable association with its ancestors, hence the breed's also known as the "Living Fossil of Africa."
This daunting task was accomplished by the selfless dedication of the first officers of the South African Mastiff Association: Lucas van der Moerwe, Jenny Berville, John De Eagle, John Duprez, Mrs. Owen Rhett, and the Knight family.
In 1997, American dog enthusiast John Blackwell introduced six African mastiffs from South Africa and began a breeding program in the United States. Later, he imported 32 more dogs, but found that only 7 of them could participate in breeding. Mr. Blackwell also began registering dogs with the American African Mastiff Kennel Association (USBA). John Blackwell is recognized as the first person to introduce and introduce the African mastiff to the United States.
Our dear readers can find complete dog breed standards on the websites of SABBA (South African Mastiff Breeders Association), ebbasa (African Outstanding African Mastiff Breeders Association), HBSA (South African Mastiff History Association), usba (American African Mastiff Dog Association).