Zimbabwe Wild Dogs

Hi Folks, 
As many of you know, it is a tough place for any animal in the wild, especially a pup in the African bush. There are so many dangers, which makes the denning season, a time of high alert for the pack to watch over the pups. Its quite common for a wild dog pack to move its den [...]

Hi Folks,
I could not keep this one in the bag any longer. A couple of weeks ago Dr. Rosemary Groom and Myself came across unexpectedly 4 dogs hunting along one of the Conservancy roads. Dr. Groom was able to Identify the individuals as Newt,Four-Ten,Browny and Paw Paw from the Mapari pack. Those of you who follow [...]

Hi all, its Rafael again,
I want to take this time since I have Moreangels here with me know, to introduce herself and talk about what she is working on here at the African Wild Dog Project and maybe share her experiences so far.
As Rosemary stated in an earlier blog, Moreangels will be here for a few [...]

Hi Everyone,
This past week has been very successful in collaring some of our Wild Dogs. We were able to fit two dogs each with a different type of collar. The types of collars we use are VHF (which emits a radio frequency that our radio receiver picks up and thus able to track its location by the intensity of the [...]

Hi guys,
I just want to introduce you to Moreangels Mbizah, a masters student from the University of Zimbabwe who has recently joined the wild dog project for her 3 month field project.
 
Moreangels will be analysing the faecal samples we’ve been collecting from wild dogs, lions, hyenas and leopards to look at the prey-choice overlap between this large [...]

Hi Folks, 
Its been a real busy here at the African Wild Dog project. I thought I would let you all in on my involvement and recent happenings lately. Regular check ups on our known packs is one aspect of the project. Now that denning season is upon us, the trips to the den are now [...]

Hi guys,
I mentioned in another post a while ago that I was concerned about some of the Maera pack pups after a lion was caught on camera at their den site.  Today we had a good sighting of the dogs and confirmed that unfortunately there are only four puppies left – there were originally [...]

Hi Folks, 
I was introduced to the Star pack as my first ever encounter with wild dogs, and I must say it was pretty cool. The Star pack conveniently denned in Chishakwe ranch, which many of you may know is where Rosemary and I are located. The introduction happened a few days after my arrival into [...]

Hi folks,
Time seems to have flown recently and already I see we are into the second week of July!  So apologies for not saying this sooner, but I just wanted to say a huge thank you to those who supported our project in June: Antonio, Deborah (twice!) and William.  Your support is greatly appreciated, especially as we [...]

Hi folks,
Forgive the infrequent posts at the moment – we are rushing around like mad things trying to keep up with the dogs as they all start to den and the pups start appearing.  This is just a brief update of where we are now…
We’ve located 5 den sites so far: the four collared packs [...]