![]() It takes great patience and awareness, things the dogs taught me.Īfrican wild dogs- Lycaon pictus, also known as painted wolves or Cape hunting dogs-are beautiful, intelligent, intensely sociable and social animals. And, as my fellow photographers will agree, capturing striking images of them is far from easy. I quickly came to realise that you never find the dogs-they find you. This sometimes makes tracking them difficult, requiring many predawn hours spent searching the bushveld. Nomadic by nature, each dog pack ranges across many hundreds of square kilometres each year. Seeing a wild dog pack is a rare occurrence, especially in vast wild areas such as the 54,600 square-kilometre (21,000 sq mi) Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. Africa’s wild dogs are just as worthy of recognition, protection and conservation. ![]() Wild dogs are a quintessential part of Africa, as charismatic and ecologically significant as their more famous neighbors-elephants, lions, rhinos and other admired species. Over the past 10 years, I have been lucky enough to spend many hours watching packs of these dogs in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Tanzania. My new book, Africa’s Wild Dogs: A Survival Story, shows and shares what I have experienced and what I have learned about African wild dogs. We hope that coverage such as this will aid their conservation in the wild. These elusive, intelligent, charismatic creatures are now classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List.
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