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No longer a dog's life: Wild dogs face extinction amid rising global heat

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A pack of Wild dogs running around in Laikipia on September 14, 2022. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

The African wild dog, a colourful canine with a patchy coat, large wide ears and a white-tipped bushy tail, is one of the wild animals that are unique to sub-Saharan Africa.

However, many local communities associate the dog with all manner of atrocities, such that whenever livestock is killed by other wild animals, wild dogs take a majority of the blame.

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