Bence Mate / Wild dog (Lycaon pictus) two pups playing in dust, Mkuze, South Africa. August. Highly commended in the Mammals category of the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2020.

Tony Heald / African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) portrait. Chobe National Park Botswana. Digitally enhanced sepia image.

Bence Mate / African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) juveniles playing with the leg of an impala, trying to drag it in three different directions. Mkuze, South Africa. Commended in Glanzlichter photo competition 2020.

Karine Aigner / Portrait of an African wild dog (Lycaon Pictus) running on green grass, Zimbabwe.

Neil Aldridge / African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) blurred motion photograph, Save Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe.

Neil Aldridge / African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) pup peers around the base of a giant baobab tree on Save Valley Conservancy. Zimbabwe.

Wim van den Heever / African Wild dogs or Cape hunting dogs (Lycaon pictus) at close range taken from ground level, Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa.

Bence Mate / African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) play fighting, Mkuze, South Africa

Wim van den Heever / African wilddog (Lycaon pictus) portrait, with another dog in the background. Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Laurent Geslin / African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) portrait, Okavango Delta, Botswana

Laurent Geslin / African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) portrait, Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Laurent Geslin / African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) with pups, Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Laurent Geslin / African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) with pup, Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Laurent Geslin / African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) interacting with pups age two months, okavango delta, Botswana

Neil Aldridge / Portrait of an African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) wearing a radio collar in dense mopane bushveld, Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa, February 2010.

Tony Heald / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pack passing infront of large African elephant (Loxodonta africana) Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe October 2012

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) adult with eight-week old pup. Endangered Species. Northern Botswana, Africa

Christophe Courteau / Fighting between a pack of 21 African Wild Dogs {Lycaon pictus} and the dominant female of a clan of Spotted Hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) Northern Okavango Delta, Botswana

Christophe Courteau / Fighting between a pack of 21 African Wild Dogs {Lycaon pictus} and the dominant female of a clan of Spotted Hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) Northern Okavango Delta, Botswana

Ingo Arndt / African wild dog portrait {Lycaon pictus} Namibia. Taken under controlled conditions.

Richard Du Toit / African wild dogs {Lycaon pictus} playfighting. Savute, Chobe NP, Botswana.

Jabruson / African wild dog pack {Lycaon pictus} attack Wildebeest {Connochaetus taurinus} Serengeti NP, Tanzania

Tony Heald / African wild dogs hunting {Lycaon pictus} Mana Pools NP Zimbabwe, Africa

Tony Heald / African wild dog at sunset, South Africa

Jabruson / African wild dog hunting wildebeest, Serengeti NP, Tanzania. Sequence 3

Jabruson / African wild dog hunting wildebeest, Serengeti NP, Tanzania. Sequence 2

Jabruson / African wild dog hunting wildebeest, Serengeti NP, Tanzania. Sequence 1

Richard Du Toit / African wild dogs return to den after hunt {Lycaon pictus) Botswana

Richard Du Toit / African wild dogs {Lycaon pictus} watching herd of Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer} Mala Mala GR, South Africa

Richard Du Toit / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) portrait, Moremi Wildlife Reserve, Botswana

Richard Du Toit / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pair laying in green grass of summer, endangered, Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana

Richard Du Toit / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pair playing, Chobe National Park, Botswana

Richard Du Toit / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pair playing, Chobe National Park, Botswana

Juergen & Christine Sohns / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) group attacking Cape Warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus), Tswalu Game Reserve, South Africa

Roland Seitre / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) running, native to Africa

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pack attacking Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), northern Botswana

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pack attacking Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), northern Botswana

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pack attacking Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), northern Botswana

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pack attacking Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), northern Botswana

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus), northern Botswana

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) six to eight week old pup running, Okavango Delta, Botswana

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus), Okavango Delta, Botswana

Suzi Eszterhas / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) six to eight week old pup, Okavango Delta, Botswana

Richard Du Toit / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) portrait, Chobe National Park, Botswana

Pete Oxford / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) portrait, endangered, Africa

Mitsuaki Iwago / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) calling, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Vincent Grafhorst / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pups, Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana

Vincent Grafhorst / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) yawning, Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana