Zimbabwe Wild Dogs

Hi all,
As a response to some comments on my last post, I thought it worth a brief post on the very controversial issue of hunting.  I’m not a hunter, I cannot for the life of me see why people would want to kill wild animals for sport and I will never understand what pleasure there [...]

Hi folks,
After a brief interlude to discuss why we need collars, I thought I’d better fill you in on the new den site we found last week.  It’s on a ranch called Mapari Ranch, and we hadn’t been allowed on there since the beginning of the denning season because they were hunting.  They had a [...]

Hi guys,
Paula raised a very good point in her comment to the last post.  Effectively – why do we need collars and how do they help conservation?  This is a very good question, because all too often people will put collars on because it seems like a good thing to do, or just because they want some data for [...]

Hi guys,
A very rushed post today as I am flat out with field work.  Just wanted to let you know that we found a new den a few days ago (yipee!!) and managed to put 2 more GPS collars onto dogs.  One on a female in the new pack and one on a male dog in a pack we already [...]

Hi guys,
HUGE APOLOGIES to everyone who has been commenting on this blog and receiving no response from me.  I just discovered that there were a zillion comments in the admin part of the blog “awaiting moderation” or somesuch nonsense, which I had to approve before they were posted.  So my apologies to Christine, Annie, Chris, [...]

Hi guys, 
We discovered something very interesting yesterday, so I thought I’d share it with you. I’ve mentioned before a pack of 3 adult dogs who have 6 pups…. Every time we see them, we see three adults only – and have done ever since we discovered the den over a month ago.  However, when these dogs were [...]

Hi folks,
As requested here is a picture of the newly collared ‘Racoon’.  And Sheryl – I’ll post pics of Mina soon.  I’ve had a camera trap up at the den for a week or so, and have lots of pictures of her and her 6 pups.
Racoon – young adult female in the Bedford Pack   

I also wanted [...]

Hi folks,
I’m in Harare at the moment: they just knocked 10 zeros off our currency, so things that used to cost 10 trillion dollars now cost 1,000 dollars.  All mightily confusing, especially now they have bought coins back in.  So we’ve gone from 100 billion dollar notes to 10 dollar coins…
Anyway, on the subject of [...]