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One of the rarest animals I’ve ever encountered in nature is the African Wild Dog.  While on safari in Chobe National Park our guide took us to a pack of them living near the park boundary and we spent a half hour quietly studying them.  They reminded me of their namesake, domesticated dogs — sleeping in the warm afternoon, pups tugging at each other and the parents not wanting to be bothered by them.  The normality of the scene belied how uncommon seeing these dogs is.  No one knows exactly how many of them survive, but by some estimates there are less than 5000 wild dogs left in Africa (about the same number as black rhinos).

Also known as the Cape …

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