episode description
The African Wild Dog, also known as Painted Dogs, is one of the most threatened animal species in Namibia, listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. Therefore every effort is made to conserve every individual dog that might be in danger. When Marlice gets a call from a farmer who has two young wild dogs that he keeps in an old farm dam she and Rudie waste no time in flying to the farm to collect the pups. At the farm Rudie sedates the dogs and load them into the aircraft for the short flight back to Naankuse. On arrival at Naankuse it is found that the one dog is ill - he is treated by Naankuse's resident vet, the other one is released into their new enclosure. Rudie and Marlice then flies to Neuras, a private game reserve where the resident biologist has caught a brown hyena in a capture cage. According to reports the numbers of brown hyenas in the south of Namibia are on the increase, the captured hyena provides Rudie and Marlice with an ideal opportunity to study these elusive carnivores. The animal is sedated, measurements taken, specimens collected and fitted with a radio collar.
