Zimbabwe Wild Dogs

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jun 17 2008 | By: zimbabwewilddogs

Hi all,

Good news!  Last week, I posted a picture of five puppies at one of the dens.  Well, we saw that pack again yesterday, and those five pups were actually five of twelve… All twelve were out yesterday, playing around the den site and the adults were nice and relaxed too which made it a great experience.

Adults and pups at the den

And for those of you who have been following the pack histories, I’ve managed to get an individual identification on several of the dogs from the pack with the puppies and can confirm that it is the Jacana pack.  They are an un-collared pack, so it’s great that we have found their den site so early in the season as it will give me a chance to get a collar onto one of them.

I’ve also got some sad news – I found a wild dog carcass last week – a young adult killed by a snare.  And our scouts found another dead dog yesterday – probably also due to snaring.  Just a reminder of the constant threat these dogs face from human activities…

The head of the wild dog killed by a snare

Anyhow, the denning season is a time to be positive and hopefully with all the work we are putting into the conservation of these wild dogs, incidences like this will become more and more infrequent.

Back soon,

Rosemary