African Wild Dog puppies, Botswana.

AMAZING sighting. 🐾❤️😍

Also known as the Cape Hunting Dog, Painted Dog or Painted Wolf, the African Wild Dog is one of Africa’s most misunderstood carnivores. It is recognised as Africa’s second most endangered predator (after the Ethiopian Wolf) with only between 3,000 and 5,000 left in the wild. Numbers have radically declined across Southern Africa due to habitat loss, poaching, diseases and threats from other predators.

Each pack has a dominant female, the 'alpha female', and a dominant male, the 'alpha male'. Together these two dogs are referred to as the 'alpha pair'. It is the alpha pair that determine the packs movements and are typically the only two wild dogs in the pack to breed.

To support African wild dog conservation, support the African Wildlife Conservation Fund https://www.africanwildlifeconservationfund.org/

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