Three African wild dog brothers have completed the longest dispersal journey ever recorded by any mammal on the African continent — 4,126 kilometres across southern Africa — navigating cities, mines, rivers, and snares in search of mates and new territory. Their journey, tracked by researchers from the Zambian Carnivore Programme and Montana State University, offers something rarer than a record: evidence that wild animals can still move through human-dominated landscapes to find one another. In an age when habitat fragmentation has reduced the African wild dog to roughly 6,600 adults across 3
Three African wild dog brothers complete longest mammal journey ever recorded
Some wild dogs in the study were killed in bushmeat snares during their journeys, with some having traveled over 2,000km before being killed.