{"id":276,"date":"2009-12-07T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2009-12-07T16:56:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:56:40","slug":"africa-day-3-wild-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/africa-day-3-wild-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Day 3, Wild Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were very fortunate to witness a pack of 22 wild dogs on 2 of our game drives.  This was one of the most exciting parts of the trip for me.  I will keep the pictures here to just pack behavior as I know many children read this blog.  I will have some scenes of the kill in the website gallery shortly.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_277\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0248_blog.jpg\" alt=\"African Wild Dog Pups at play, Chitabe, Botswana\" title=\"20091117_chitabe_0248_blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0248_blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0248_blog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">African Wild Dog Pups at play, Chitabe, Botswana<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>You can tell by the image below that these hunts take their toll on the animals.  Look at the right front leg on the dog to the left.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_278\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0253_blog.jpg\" alt=\"African Wild Dog with Injured Leg, Chitabe, Botswana\" title=\"20091117_chitabe_0253_blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0253_blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0253_blog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">African Wild Dog with Injured Leg, Chitabe, Botswana<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>This pack had 14 new pups in the 22, 2 of the pups had already not survived the last few months.  That said, our guide told us that this was one of the largest African Wild Dog packs in Africa.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_279\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_1407_blog-2.jpg\" alt=\"African Wild Dog pups at play, Chitabe, Botswana\" title=\"20091117_chitabe_1407_blog-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_1407_blog-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_1407_blog-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">African Wild Dog pups at play, Chitabe, Botswana<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Flying around the dog kill was this beautiful Yellow Billed Kite.  When the dogs were not looking he swooped down and grabbed a piece of their kill which is actually still in his talons in this picture.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_280\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0151_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Billed Kite in Flight, Chitabe, Botswana\" title=\"20091117_chitabe_0151_blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0151_blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091117_chitabe_0151_blog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow Billed Kite in Flight, Chitabe, Botswana<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were very fortunate to witness a pack of 22 wild dogs on 2 of our game drives. This was one of the most exciting parts of the trip for me. I will keep the pictures here to just pack behavior as I know many children read this blog. 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