Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African wild dog is one of Africa’s most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human contact ...

An African wild dog. Credit: Mathias Appel/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0 One of the most endangered mammals on Earth, African wild dogs are known for their oversized ears, social bonds, and highly efficient ...

Anatomists identify a vestigial first digit in the forelimb of the African wild dog and document anatomical adaptations to its unique lifestyle of long-distance running and exhaustive predation ...

Bernard Monnaapula, my guide at Gomoti Plains, and I have been trailing a male leopard across the Okavango Delta for more than an hour when we realize it has led us to an unexpected prize: African ...

When people think of animals that could be driven extinct by climate change, they usually think of polar bears and, perhaps these days, emperor penguins, both of which are struggling to survive due to ...

Large carnivores in Africa are important from ecological, economic and cultural perspectives, but human activities put them at risk. Increasingly, lions, hyenas and African wild dogs are restricted to ...

Over the course of a year, “Dogs in the Wild” filmmakers filmed over 22 wild dog species across six continents. African Wild Dogs were one of the toughest species to film due to the flooded Okavango ...

A newborn African wild donkey, one of the world's rarest and most endangered mammals, has been born at a zoo in the U.K. The foal was born at Marwell Zoo near Winchester in Hampshire, England, British ...

Across the African savannah, predators often end up grouped in the public imagination. Hyenas and African wild dogs are a ...