Killing Machines of Wild Africa-The African Wild dogs –
October 23, 2014, 8:23 pm
Text and Pictures by B A Mahipala
The African wild dog, sometimes known as the African Hunting dog or the Painted dog (due to its beautiful coloured skin pattern) in the African continent are today classified as one of the most endangered mammals in the Planet Earth.According to the information available, once there were about 50,0000 wild dogs, but today, the numbers have been drastically reduced to 7,000 in Africa. Human activity and diseases were the main threats to its survival. My first sighting of the wild dogs was in 1998 at Kruger National Park in South Africa. Subsequently, National parks in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
