{"id":3398,"date":"2022-05-19T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T08:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2022-05-19T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T08:06:40","slug":"new-wild-dog-pack-for-mabula-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/conservation\/new-wild-dog-pack-for-mabula-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"New wild dog pack for Mabula Lodge"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mabula Private Game Reserve is proud to announce the exciting new wild dog introduction on the reserve. The recent arrival of two male wild dogs in 2021 resulted in great excitement from the Mabula team.<\/p>\n
A newly formed pack of 4 African wild dogs was released from their temporary holding boma onto the Mabula Private Game Reserve in the southern part of the Waterberg, Limpopo on Tuesday, May 10th. The two males and two females will form the second-known breeding pack of African wild dogs in the Waterberg.<\/p>\n
The males naturally dispersed from their resident pack in northern Limpopo in early 2021 in search of females. They travelled 330km before arriving on Mabula in July 2021. With no suitable adult females available in South Africa\u2019s wild dog metapopulation, two females in the free-roaming Waterberg Wild Dog population were identified for translocation. The two females were translocated just prior to their dispersal from their natal pack in the northern part of the Waterberg in March 2022 to Mabula to be bonded with the males.<\/p>\n