The African wild dog is one of Africa's most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human contact and utilizing vast, remote territories to remain out of sight. Current ...

LIMPOPO-LIPADI PRIVATE GAME RESERVE, Botswana – It looked like an African wildlife version of "West Side Story." A pack of African wild dogs milled around at dusk, seemingly ready to rumble, as in the ...

Damien Boyd Bertrand Paul Paris receives funding from Morris Animal Foundation, Roger Willliams Park Zoo and Fresno Chaffee Zoo. He is affiliated with James Cook University, the Institute for Breeding ...

A litter of African painted dogs, a highly endangered species, were born at Brookfield Zoo in Illinois on November 25, the ...

African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral ...

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 ...

Six African painted dog pups were recently born at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden, zoo officials have announced. The dogs were born on November 5 and 6 to first-time mother Pele, a ...

HOUSTON — The Houston Zoo is welcoming back African painted dogs after a three-year absence. The four male dogs, Modo, Rafiki, Tamu and Wiki, are offspring of Ghost, a painted dog that lived at the ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...