A young African Wild Dog, photographed in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, which is currently host to several breeding packs of dogs. We came across a pack at rest. While resting, they don't make interesting subjects because adult dogs don't mind people and are not curious about us. Young ones, however, are often curious, as this one was who approached us to investigate. African Wild Dogs are neither wolves nor dogs, despite their common English names, and the fact that their scientific name, Lycaeon pictus, translates to 'painted wolf'. Like wolves and dogs, African wild dogs do belong to the Canidae family. However, grey wolves, coyotes, dogs and jackals are all in the Canis genus, whereas African wild dogs are the only extant species in the Lycaeon genus. African wild dogs are found in a number of sub-Saharan Africa, including Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. African wild dogs are listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List due to a range of factors including habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, being caught in snares as bycatch by poachers hunting for bushmeat, and infectious diseases like canine distemper and rabies. Currently, there are fewer 6,000 individuals are left in the wild, forming fewer than 700 packs.