Plight of Africa's wild dogs.

From: Animals | Date: March 1, 1998| Author: Williams, Wendy | Copyright information

African wild dogs have been hunted for so long that they are now among the continent's most threatened carnivores, even though they do not attack people. Man is their worst enemy. The behavior and history of the dogs are discussed.

In 1906, a few years after Cecil Rhodes grabbed southern Rhodesia from the Shona and Matabele people, the British government began paying a 10-shilling bounty for each African wild dog killed. Settlers on the high veld were ranching cattle, and Lycaon...

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