African wild dogs are social and live in packs, with the average pack size being between 5 and 20 dogs. Within the pack, there is one dominant male and dominant female, called the alpha pair.

Escape to the Waterberg Mountains of Limpopo, where the Lindani Game Reserve hosts a conservation weekend from 3 to 6 July to ...

The African wild dog is one of Africa’s most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human contact and utilising vast, remote territories to remain out of sight ...

Long misunderstood, African wild dogs are intelligent and highly social, and pose little risk to people. But, as usual, it is humans who have pushed these ‘heroes of the bush’ onto Botswana ...

African wild dogs might use facial expressions to communicate with each other as they hunt in packs on the savanna. Arno Meintjes via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED. Puppy-dog eyes are ...

Also known as African wild dogs or African painted wolves, this species is native to sub-Saharan Africa and lives in big family groups that are led by a dominant male and female, according to the zoo.

African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are native to sub-Saharan Africa. Between 1997 and 2012, their numbers dropped by half in some areas. With only 8,000 or so remaining in the wild, ...

African wild dogs are carnivores always thought to hunt in packs. But new DNA analysis has found they also eat small birds and hares and may hunt alone.