Robyn Dixon / Los Angeles Times / October 17, 2004 STORMS RIVER, South Africa – It is tough being an alpha wolf – the pack leader – as Michael McDonald knows too well. It means deciding when they eat, where they live and, sometimes, which ones have to die. When he is near, the packs […]
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Winnie Graham / The Star / March 20, 2006 Paul Lister came to South Africa to view wildlife – and returned to Britain inspired. As the owner of some 100km sq of wilderness in a remote corner of the Scottish highlands, he had learned enough from his visit to Shamwari to know that it was
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Africa’s Last Wolves National Geographics / March 2006 Get a taste of what awaits you in print from this compelling excerpt. Mornings on the high Sanetti Plateau of Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains break cold and spare, the sun’s first rays stirring not warmth, but an icy, cutting wind. I pull my neck gaiter over my chin,
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philly.com / Philadelphia Inquirer / November 7, 2004 Imported wolves were trained to track insurgents during apartheid. Now the animals are outcasts. Robyn Dixon / Los Angeles TimesSTORMSRIVER, South Africa – It is tough being an alpha wolf – the pack leader – as Michael McDonald knows too well. It means deciding when they eat, where
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Wildlife Conservation Society A combination of a natural wanderlust and bad image among humans has driven African wild dogs from nearly two thirds of their original range. Their population in parks has plummeted to around 3,000 — making them as endangered as black rhinos — according to a recently released report by IUCN Species Survival
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Manhunters … the wolf-dogs have adapted to the hot climate by molting twice a year Gavin du Venage in Cape Town / NEWS.com.au / May 3, 2005 WOLVES have haunted the dreams of humans in cold northern climates for centuries but it was in Africa, where they do not occur naturally, that they fulfilled the
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YubaNet.com / African Wildlife Foundation / August 25, 2005 Lions, wolves, and other big cats and canine species have long captured people’s imaginations. They have been memorialized by poets and filmmakers; exploited by short-sighted traders who would wipe them out for one more shipment of pelts; and feared by people who have moved into their
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