Dog Call 8,88: A lot of new friends like the Painted Dogs / Meet and Greet Conservation Heroes Jealous and Peter 14-15 May 2016 / Male Dog Don's New Collar / A Wild Dog takes to the air ! / Research | | | | Dog Call 8,88 News about PDC and the Painted Dogs
| | | | So let’s start with the project promo clip, enjoy it! | | | Meet our Conservation Heroes Jealous Mpufo, Senior Tracker and Peter Blinston, Managing Director, during their stay in The Netherlands, 14-15 May 2016. Please contact me if interested. | | | Over the last six months, we have had many early starts and late finishes trying to locate and put a collar on male dog Don from the Nyamandhlovu Pack. Read the full story here. If you like to support more dogs by donating a protective collar:
| | | (Inter)national donations Bank: IBAN: BIC: Account number: Name: Address: City: Country: | | Rabobank NL65RABO0362443556 RABONL2U 362443556 St. Painted Dog Conservation Terwindtplein 3 2087 RP Gouda Nederland
| | | Months ago I was tickled to receive a request from Dora and Vaughan in Zambia for artwork, to transform their Britten Norman Islander into a flying wild dog! Of course I said Yes! What else would I say… Read the full story here. | | | Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs Abstract African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are described as highly collaborative endurance pursuit hunters based on observations derived primarily from the grass plains of East Africa. However, the remaining population of this endangered species mainly occupies mixed woodland savannah where hunting strategies appear to differ from those previously described. We used high-resolution GPS and inertial technology to record fine-scale movement of all members of a single pack of six adult African wild dogs in northern Botswana. The dogs used multiple short-distance hunting attempts with a low individual kill rate (15.5%), but high group feeding rate due to the sharing of prey. Use of high-level cooperative chase strategies (coordination and collaboration) was not recorded. In the mixed woodland habitats typical of their current range, simultaneous, opportunistic, short-distance chasing by dogs pursuing multiple prey (rather than long collaborative pursuits of single prey by multiple individuals) could be the key to their relative success in these habitats. Read more
| | | | Have a nice day, Met vriendelijke groet, Ron van der A Stichting Painted Dog Conservation Tel: 0031 (0)182 516627 Mob: 0031 (0)6 14541394 Terwindtplein 3 2807 RP Gouda The Netherlands http://www.painteddogconservation.nl/ Please consider the environment before printing this email | | | | | | | |