Wild Dogs take on Elephants: Video
Published by Wildcaster 1 year, 9 months ago Tags: africa, blogumentary, conservation, documentary, education, elephants, endangered species, hunting, IUCN Red List, kill, malilangwe, mashable, narrowcasting, stampede, video, wild dogs, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, youtube, zimbabwe.The wild dogs haven’t had a good run of meals lately and the little guys are all looking rather lean.
Hunting at dawn and again in the evening, although they were successful, only a few adults got to feed each time. Both kills must have been small as the adults returning from them didn’t take the others back to the kill and neither did the others follow up.
And so their lean times continue, each only getting a snack a day.
The adult with the injury to her front right foot, still manages to stay with the pack and is feeding but she is looking really lean and unfortunately looking like she might go the same way as 2 other adults we have already lost in the pack in the last 4 months. Her injury, whatever it is, doesn’t look severe except she just isn’t using that leg at all. I sure hope it heels soon, although in the last 5 days it hasn’t shown any signs of getting better.
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Hi Kim
Just catching up on your latest news. Tough job but someone has to do it. Apologies if I missed it previously but any possibility of giving us a map/sketch of i)Malilangwe’s location in Zim and ii)local areas eg Sosigi hill, Chekwa Pan, The Dam and Chiredzi river etc so we have a better grasp of the reserve. Thanks
Chick.
Well..
Two days ago I was joking about the WD and the ellies… but at least they crossed paths and it was the latter who got scared!!! Unbelievable.
Thanks again for your big effort Kim.
Cheers,
Dave.
Hi Kim
Great V Clip. Good to read and see the pics so often. Good also to be back in Africa. No place like home.
Regards
Callie
Hi Chick
Indeed. Working on that map. Keep a look out for it.
Cheers
Kim
Hi Dave
Always expect the unexpected in the bush and you’ll survive.
Cheers
Kim
Hi Callie
Glad you can ride along.
Have you left the country or just living in the city now?
Cheers
Kim
Hi?I was impressed to see your recomendable job.I was amazed to see WD in Mt.Kenya!It was on 28th Nov.2007 when we spotted about 22 WDs.Mt.Kenya is very dense with vegetation.I understand that WDs habituate in Savanna where as this is a Tropical Rain Forest.Unfortunately,I was not having my camera since I would have posted you the photos.Wish you all the best & keep up the good work.