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Territoriality and Scent Marking Behavior of African Wild Dogs in Northern Botswana
… information on movement and social dynamics. Wild dogs, Lycaon pictus, are large, wide-ranging carnivores and one of the most endangered animals in Africa. Unlike other large carnivores, wild dogs do not vocalize as a form of territorial advertisement so to explore mechanisms of communication …
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Territoriality and Scent Marking Behavior of African Wild Dogs in Northern Botswana
… information on movement and social dynamics. Wild dogs, Lycaon pictus, are large, wide-ranging carnivores and one of the most endangered animals in Africa. Unlike other large carnivores, wild dogs do not vocalize as a form of territorial advertisement so to explore mechanisms of communication …
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Defending Wild Dogs: Population Dynamics and Disease in Endangered African Wild Dogs
<p>African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are endangered carnivores whose population is decreasing from habitat loss and fragmentation, interspecific competition, and disease. Survival rates are especially low in Kruger National Park (KNP), though it is unclear why. I estimated the abundance in KNP and …
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Landscape utilisation by an introduced pack of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in eastern Botswana
African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are one of the most endangered carnivores in southern Africa. Direct persecution, prey decline and habitat loss and fragmentation all contributed to a rapid decline in this species’ population size and distribution during the 20th century. Following a thorough …
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Drivers of farmer-African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) conflict in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve, South Africa
African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are the most endangered large carnivore in Southern Africa. There are as little as 5,000 individuals globally and less than 450 African wild dogs in South Africa alone. African wild dogs are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature …
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Mechanisms facilitating coexistence between leopards (Panthera pardus) and their competitors in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
… in maintaining full ecosystem function. The African large carnivore guild represents one of the last functionally intact guilds of large carnivores on Earth, but relatively little is known of the mechanisms facilitating coexistence between some of its members. As such, I investigate …
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Dispersal and Connectivity in Physical, Seasonal, and Extreme Landscapes
… are researched primarily using dispersing African wild dogs from northern Botswana as a study system. Due to the study species' wide-ranging behavior and the study areas' highly seasonal habitats, the study system offers a unique opportunity to investigate patterns of dispersal and …