When Lekitasharan Lepulen, 26, remembers his childhood in Kirimon, Northern Kenya, he recalls his mother's warnings not to go out at night, or stray far from home.
Nights in the Laikipia plateau were different then. They were darker, noisier and wilder. The howls of unknown beasts often made him and his siblings shudder in fear.
Sometimes on their way to school, or while herding livestock, Lepulen and his friends would encounter wild dogs that roamed the area.
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