Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gorongosa National Park is now home to more than 300 African wild dogs. CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES, Nat Geo Image collection Bernard ...

For the first time, “hyper-carnivorous” African wild dogs have been recorded eating fruit, a behavior so far documented only in a small part of Botswana’s wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. The wild dogs ...

Researchers examined three populations of African wild dogs in Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe to understand if high heat correlates with increased mortality. In two out of the three sites, there was a ...

In 2021, a three-year-old female African wild dog spent a year travelling more than 2,300 kilometres across southern Africa. She climbed in and out of the Rift Valley in Zambia, swimming rivers, ...

Safaris can bring both moving and heartbreaking sightings that remind us of the brutality of the circle of life. Around one year ago, wildlife guides in Botswana were reminded just how much of a ...

Dispersal is an important process governing the persistence of wild animal populations. Upon reaching sexual maturity, individuals usually disperse from their natal home range to search for suitable ...

Wildlife are responding and adapting to climate change in various ways. Some adaptations are more obvious. Flowering plants, for example, are blooming sooner each year in parts of the northern ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The African wild dog could be headed for a population crash because of how it’s adapting to climate change. An analysis of 30 years of demographic data and field observations in Botswana ...

The world's largest terrestrial conservation area is located in southern Africa and covers 520,000 square kilometers spanning five countries. A study from the University of Zurich now shows that the ...