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Tracking study follows wild dogs over 4,000 kilometres
A study of African wild dogs in Zambia documents exceptionally long journeys connecting distant wildlife areas.
Published in Ecology on 13 September, the research reports a maximum tracked path of 4,126 kilometres, distinct from the shorter straight-line distance between locations. The journeys illustrate how animals cross protected and unprotected land. They are findings from tracking over earlier months, not a trek completed this weekend.
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