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‘Like a Disney movie’: Three wild dog brothers make Africa’s longest journey
As three siblings came of age and had to leave their pack, scientists tracked the dogs’ perilous 2,500-mile odyssey to find their own territory It sounds like a Disney movie: three wild dogs, all brothers, on an epic journey to find a home of their own after their family tells them to leave. They dodge cars and hunters in search of a new life, navigating bushmeat snares and the hostility of a human-dominated landscap…
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Researchers used GPS collars to track 19 groups of wild dogs and monitor their dispersals, including a group of sisters to the brothers who were less successful at finding a new range. Photograph: MSU Department of Ecology View image in fullscreen Researchers used GPS collars to track 19 groups of wild dogs and monitor their dispersals, including a group of sisters to the brothers who were less successful at finding a new range. Photograph: MSU Department of Ecology The age of extinction Endangered species ‘Like a Disney movie’: Three wild dog brothers make Africa’s longest journey As three siblings came of age and had to leave their pack, scientists tracked the dogs’ perilous 2,500-mile odyssey to find their own territory
About this content Patrick Greenfield . Photographs by Scott Creel Thu 17 Sep 2026 05.00 BST Last modified on Thu 17 Sep 2026 05.01 BST Share Prefer the Guardian on Google I t sounds like a Disney movie: three wild dogs, all brothers, on an epic journey to find a home of their own after their family tells them to leave. They dodge cars and hunters in search of a new life, navigating bushmeat snares and the hostility of a human-dominated landscape until they find a new haven on the African savannah.
But this is exactly what happened in Zambia last year, when three endangered African wild dogs made the longest-ever recorded single journey of any mammal from the continent. The brothers travelled more than 2,500 miles (4,100km) over eight months in their “dispersal” – when a young dog comes of age and must establish new territory to find a mate and start a family of their own.
View image in fullscreen Two months after they set out, the brothers and sisters met again, spending a day together before separating. Photograph: MSU From point to point, starting in Kafue national park in western Zambia to their final destination in the Luangwa valley in the east of the country, the brothers covered 340 miles (546km), which is also a record.
The epic single journey is almost equivalent to travelling the length of Chile by foot and farther than the famous wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti in east Africa. The previous record was 2,418 miles, also made by African wild dogs, which moved between Loliondo, in northern Tanzania’s Ngorongoro district, and Tsavo West national park in southern Kenya in 2012.