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@ TE- did you get a count of how many dogs there were in that pack?
The most i've seen is around 20/25 many years ago around Afsaal- yours look around 30/35 dogs.

Our professionell guide (former KNP-Ranger) thought, that it could be -+ 30. He told us, that sometimes 2 or 3 packs come together up to 50 to hunt for bigger prey, like ellies.

I´ve heard, but not sure, that AWD would charge ellies for very long distances and a few hous. When the llie is to tired or the ellie collapsed, they could kill them.
But this was in 1994, so it could be a wrong memory.

Hi Everyone.

The Wild Dog is very low around 90 - 200.

Am starting to worry. They are my Favourites.

And was wandering if there was any Project going on to increase the population

Mark , there are many projects involving wild dogs .
One of the biggest worrys considering krugers low population at this point of 150-200 is that knp is 1 of the few reserves with a self sustaining population
Your favourite animal is on a lot of trouble !

Interesting point to note , is that wild dog numbers do tend to drop after many years of high rainfall , and increase again when it is drier .
We have had record rains , so you may well find this is the reason for there low numbers .

More worrying is the fact that more than half there fatalities are caused directly by man , a lot of these are road kills , which is why it is important for kruger to limit non tourist related traffic ,
and clamp down on speeding and bad driving , especially in the busy south of the park where most wild dogs are found !

From the front page:

“Directions in Wild Dog Conservation in South Africa”

Hi MC, this is a very interesting document that has some good general information published by the Smithsonian
link

In 2004 I heard there were only 350, in 2005 I heard there were 150 and this year I heard there were 100 and if those numbers are right, their population is failing badly...

Our last wilddog sighting was March 2006 near Croc.
H4-2 near S130 T.

Taken in April 2006 at Malelane gate:

The Wild Dog pack I saw last week in Kruger had 11 members. There were no youngsters with them and at this time of the year I would presume they would have a den somewhere close with young. (They were seen alsomst everyday in the area so den should have been there close) To have a pack of 11 adult hunters with a possible den close by could put this pack up to a possible +- 18 members.
Anyone going to LS in the near future look out for them on the LS Skukuza road anywhere between LS camp and and the short H12.
P.S. to the DUKE TEAM you are there to find Duke, so this message is not for you

Was in Lower Sabie in the last week of September and for the first time in 5 years I sas WD's in Kruger. Was near Skukuza, can't recall the road. Was the best 5 minutes of sighting ever!

November 2003 there were two AWD at the Kruger Tablets just to the south of Tshokwane. The temperature was in the high 30s, we had had rain the previous night. The dogs were lying in the water that had collected in the rock and then in the shade, repeating the process when they had dried out a bit.
Many cars stopped with more than a few people getting out to walk to the Tablets.

Does anyone know if there is any documented info or evidence on whether Wild dogs would attack an adult human?
I guess if they were hunting as a pack, it certainly could be possible.

My Son & I went to the Lion & Rhino Park in JHB recently and we witnessed a couple of Wild dogs tearing a gentlmen's bumpers of his car & biting chunks out of his tyres. This was right before their feeding time.

I was just curios if anyone has every had similar experiences in the park with Wilddog and if this is normal Wilddog behaviour??