![]() Plus only the alpha male and female of a pack breed, so their reproductive rates are lower than normal. And so cute too!Īfrican wild dogs need huge tracts of land to roam, which are increasingly rare in Africa as the human population grows. What a marvelous stroke of good fortune to be able to see these rare dogs. Ironically, the view of the pups was much better at night since they were hanging out only about 10 feet from the road, as opposed to 100 feet back into the bushes as they’d been doing earlier in the day. Then we saw them again on the night safari, which you can sign up to join at the Protea Hotel. The first viewing was during the daytime on our morning wildlife drive, where we spent a good 35 to 40 minutes watching 4 or 5 adults minding over 6 adorable pups about 5 to 6 weeks old. Well in keeping with the phenomenally fortunate viewing opportunities thus far present on this trip, we saw a pack of about 10-11 individuals today, resting and playing near the roadside, causing a traffic jam of tourists gawking for a view of these rare canids. So in visiting Kruger National Park in Sept 2016, we hoped to see a pack of them, since this park contains about 300-350 of them in what is one of the only sizable self-sustaining Af rican wild dog populations remaining in the world. ![]() ![]() The entire thinly-spread population on the continent has been estimated to be at about 6600 individuals, with only about 1400 of those being adults and the remainder juveniles and subadults. African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) were once widespread across most of Africa, but have been exterminated over most of their range. ![]()
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