How African wild dogs became a safari star

As safari-goers look beyond the big five, endangered African wild dogs are emerging as one of the continent’s most sought-after sightings. These camps have turned the limelight into sustained ...
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Is an African wild dog actually a dog? Candid Animal Cam meets the rare canid

Understanding African wild dogs’ scent marking is a key step in Botswana Predator Conservation’s development of a ‘BioBoundary’ that relies on an artificial scent. The aim is that the boundary will ...
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"We'd see the wild dog racing through the bush with the jackals skipping at her heels and the hyena loping along behind"

Things took an even stranger turn when a spotted hyena started following the ragtag little group around. We'd often see the ...
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African wild dogs break the carnivore rule in Botswana

For the first time, “hyper-carnivorous” African wild dogs have been recorded eating fruit, a behavior so far documented only in a small part of Botswana’s wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. The wild dogs ...