The mystery dog
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Aug 08 2008 | By: zimbabwewilddogs
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 seen in February, they were with a fourth dog (a very white one), who was heavily pregnant. Since that dog had since been seen alone, and never once with the other three dogs, we presumed she had been separated from the pack, or killed.
However…. then…. we put a camera trap at the den for a week and who did we see on the picture but the very white female! Amazing - she has clearly been there all the time (is most likely the mother of the 6 pups) and we have never seen her! So - Sheryl, since I said I would name the Alpha female Mina - I guess that’s her new name! I’ve posted a picture of her below.
Mina, the secret alpha female of the Nyarushanga pack
And - just because I think they are very cool - I’ve posted below a picture of an aardvark caught on the same camera trap…
Back soon,
Rosemary
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3 Responses to “The mystery dog”
sheryl, washington dc, on 08 Aug 2008
Camera traps are awesome! Mina is a lovely dog with all that white in her coat. Nice shot of the aardvark, too. Do you ever see poachers in your cam photos?
BTW, my own Mina is recovering nicely from a recurrence of Lyme disease. It never leaves the body but this time it’s not as bad as the onset. I think having this beautiful wild dog named the same is good karma.
s.
Annie, on 08 Aug 2008
Cool night pics………I hope the wild dogs can thrive and raise their pups in natural way they are supposed to! Thanks for sharing!
Paul, on 11 Aug 2008
Great discovery!
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