Common names: African Wild Dog, Cape Hunting Dog, Painted Hunting Dog, Wild Dog (English), Wildehond (Afrikaans), Lethalerwa (Tswana), Ixhwili (Xhosa), nKentshane (Zulu). Distribution: Wild Dogs were formerly distributed throughout subSaharan Africa, from desert to mountain summits (Thesiger 1970), and were probably absent only from lowland rainforest and the driest desert (Schaller 1972). They have disappeared from much of their former range. The largest populations remain in southern Africa (especially northern Botswana) and the southern part of East Africa (especially Tanzania).