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Here, in the heart of Africa,
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lives one of this great continent's most
extraordinary yet misunderstood animals.
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Animals that only thrive
through remarkable team work,
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and through the strength and
skill of their leaders.
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Painted wolves, once known
as Cape Hunting Dogs,
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are one of Africa's most
threatened predators.
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Their packs require huge areas
of territory in which to hunt.
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But today, because of human pressure,
their world is shrinking fast.
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And whereas once neighbours could
live together in relative peace,
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today there is intense
rivalry between them.
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For more than two years,
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our team here in Mana
Pools in Zimbabwe,
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have been following the fortunes
of one of the last great families.
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We join them at a moment when
competition between mother
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and one of her daughters
is boiling up,
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threatening to not only shatter
a long-established peace,
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but to tear apart
the whole family.
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This is Tait, the
family's ruling queen.
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She's a mother and
a grandmother.
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For years, she has
used her position
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to keep the peace within
her sprawling family.
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But Tait is now old.
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Her powers are waning.
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Tait still controls the very
best hunting territory,
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the rich lands on the
banks of the Zambezi.
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But she's surrounded.
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To the east lie the
dangerous lion pridelands.
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To the south, forests
full of hyena.
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And to the west, 5 pack led by one
of Tait's daughters, Blacktip.
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For many years, Blacktip has lived in
peaceful coexistence with her mother,
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each with enough
territory to survive.
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But Blacktip's pack has grown huge.
It's now 30 strong.
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For the first time, she
needs more territory
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if she's to feed her
growing family.
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Normally, a daughter would not
invade her mother's territory.
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However, with hyenas
ruling to the south,
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and humans having taken the
hunting lands to the west,
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Blacktip has no choice
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but to turn her sights east,
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towards her mother's lands.
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Where, after a morning's hunt,
Tait and her pack are resting.
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Blacktip's pack outnumbers her
mother's by more than two to one.
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An ambush!
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Against these odds,
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Tait is powerless.
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Retreat is the only option.
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This has now become
Blacktip's territory.
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A brief but bloody battle.
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Tait and her pack
are now homeless.
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She retreats eastwards.
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But this is dangerous country.
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This river marks the boundary
between her own territory
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and the lion pridelands.
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In her long life, Tait has
explored every part of Mana.
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She knows that this is too
perilous a place to make a home.
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Lions will search out and kill puppies,
and even adults, if they get the chance.
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For now, it's the
only place to hide.
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But Tait must keep
her family safe,
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well away from the 26
lions that rule here.
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Three months have passed
since Blacktip's takeover.
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And all these lands are now
firmly under her control.
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Blacktip's pack have spent a great
deal of time scent marking,
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establishing their new
territorial boundaries.
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And Blacktip and her
family have fed well
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on what was her mother's lands.
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But now, it's the dry season,
and the landscape is changing.
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The ground is dangerous for
hunters who rely on speed.
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Deep footprints left by elephants in
soft mud have baked as hard as rock.
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And a painted wolf putting a foot
wrong could seriously damage itself.
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The impalas' ability to leap
over the worst of the pot holes
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now gives them an edge.
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In these conditions, Blacktip's pack
will find it hard to feed themselves.
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But the size and strength of the
pack might enable her to catch
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a totally new kind of prey.
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A large male baboon is strong,
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almost twice the weight
of a painted wolf.
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And armed with
huge canine teeth.
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The great size of
Blacktip's pack
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means the large males can't defend
their troupe against them all.
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The meal has been hard-won.
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But discovering this new possibility
has come at just the right time.
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Blacktip won more than
just hunting lands
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in her battle to claim
Tait's territory.
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She secured the safest place to
raise puppies in all of Mana Pools.
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And sure enough, Blacktip has a
new litter of five hungry pups.
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Their father is
babysitting them today.
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Everyone is impatient for the
return of the hunting party.
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While they wait,
the pups discover
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that there's more to the
world than just their pack.
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There's no rest for Blacktip.
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She not only leads
the hunting trips,
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but, as the alpha female,
she's the only who breeds
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and provides milk for the pups.
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It's not just milk.
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They're already
eagerly eating meat.
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Blacktip's hold on Tait's territory
appears to be paying off.
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It has been four months since Tait
and her pack were forced into exile
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here in the lion pridelands.
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Compared to her home territory,
there is not only more danger,
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but there's much less prey.
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Yet, remarkably, even here,
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Tait has managed to keep every
member of her pack alive.
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But she is nowhere to be seen.
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The rest of her family are waiting
close to an abandoned aardvark burrow.
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And this is why.
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Tait has spent the last three
weeks hidden underground.
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She has managed, against the odds,
to produce her eighth litter.
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Two tiny puppies emerge
for the very first time.
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Honey badgers.
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They are notoriously aggressive,
and a danger to the pups.
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Tait's youngest daughter, Tammy,
has never seen one before.
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But her instinct tells
her to drive them away.
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And this gives Tait the chance to
get her pups to safety underground.
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This year, both
Tait and Blacktip
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have produced far fewer
puppies than ever before.
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Perhaps this is the first sign that
the conflict between the two packs
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is threatening the future
of the entire family.
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Twice a day, Tait has to lead her
hunting party on a risky journey
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to the banks of the Zambezi
river, where the prey gather.
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But it is also the very
heart of lion territory.
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She must sneak them into
position undetected.
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Then, it's in and out
as fast as possible.
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The pack need to work fast.
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All that effort for a
few mouthfuls of food.
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The puppies will
go hungry today.
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And the pack has been
dealt another blow.
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Again it's Tammy, Tate's youngest
daughter, who spots the problem.
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Tammy's sister has fallen.
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She has broken a leg stumbling
into an elephant's footprint.
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For most animals, this
would be the end.
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But the family won't just leave
her to fend for herself.
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Painted wolves, perhaps
more than any other animal,
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care for pack members
who are old or injured.
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Tait's family will
protect and feed her
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while she herself cannot
join in the hunt.
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The dry season turns to drought.
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The great buffalo herds
are on the move.
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Food and water are becoming
increasingly scarce.
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All of Mana's inhabitants are
now drawn towards the Zambezi
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and the few pools that
remain along its banks.
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The drought also means that it's
time for Blacktip and her pups
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to leave their den behind.
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For the pups, this is
their first adventure.
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Now the pups are old enough
to follow the adults,
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Blacktip can resume marking the
new boundaries of her territory
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to consolidate her takeover.
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On the far eastern borders,
Blacktip picks up a familiar scent.
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It's old, but unmistakable.
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Her mother.
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This discovery has an
extraordinary effect on Blacktip.
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She can tell from this smell
which direction Tait took.
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Blacktip stops territorial marking
and instead sets off in pursuit
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of her mother.
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It seems that Blacktip is going
to try and drive Tait out of Mana
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once and for all.
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But she's taking a huge risk by going
into territory she doesn't know.
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Hyenas.
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On moonless nights, the
pack would normally rest up
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somewhere safe until dawn.
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But instead, Blacktip leads them,
marching on into the gloom.
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No one wants to be the
straggler in the dark.
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The family bunch together
much more closely at night.
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And now, 15 hyenas
are tracking them.
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Attack may be the
best form of defence.
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Blacktip thinks she's
got the upper hand,
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but she's let her
pups get separated.
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The puppy is lost.
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Heads down, tails down,
they seem to mourn.
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For hours, they
march in silence.
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A solemn procession.
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Despite her loss, Blacktip
drives her pack on,
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far beyond the boundary
of Tait's old territory.
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Tracking her mother into a
place she's never been before,
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deep into the heart of
the lion pridelands.
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Tait, remarkably, has now managed to
keep her pack safe from the lions
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for eight months.
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Her injured daughter
is on the mend.
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The family have been protecting
her while she recovers.
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They only survive here by being on
constant alert for signs of danger.
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And today it is the wind
that carries a warning.
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Blacktip is coming.
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Forewarned, Tait isn't
going to risk an attack.
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The pack turns tail and runs.
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The temperature has
reached 50 degrees.
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Still, Blacktip pushes
her pack on in pursuit.
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They're closing in, less
than a mile behind Tait.
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But, finally, the heat
is just too much.
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Blacktip is forced
to call a halt.
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But danger is approaching.
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The pack has scattered!
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And now the lions will try
to pick off the puppies.
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There's only one
adult with the pups.
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That won't be enough
to save them.
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But this might.
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Buffaloes and [ions are
always in conflict.
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To charge in alone
is very unusual.
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But it's certainly
saved the pups.
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Blacktip and her pack have
been halted in their tracks.
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Blacktip's pursuit of Tait
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has exposed her family
to too many dangers,
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too many risks.
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The pack are desperate to help,
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but there is nothing
they can do.
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The pursuit of Tait is over.
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Blacktip's pack run.
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They run, and run.
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Mile after mile.
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Puppies in tow.
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All through the day,
all through the night.
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All the way home.
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The territory they
stole, abandoned.
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The conflict is over.
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It cost too much.
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Tait and her pack can already
sense Blacktip's retreat.
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For the first time since the
beginning of the conflict,
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they appear relaxed.
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Soon, their keen sense of smell
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will tell them their stolen
territory is no longer occupied.
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It won't be long until it's time
for Tait's pack to also go home.
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But Tait will not
be joining them.
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For seven-and-a-half years,
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she's been their leader,
their matriarch.
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And now, as their exile
finally draws to a close,
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she has ensured her pack
still have a future,
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a real chance to reclaim
their old territory.
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Before her pack could,
at last, head home,
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age finally caught up with Tait.
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Too old, too slow,
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she was no longer able
to evade the lions.
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Her alpha male refused
to abandon her.
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Together, they died
in the pridelands.
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Tait's pack are left leaderless.
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But the story doesn't end
with Tait's passing.
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Life-giving rains
follow the drought.
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Hard times are quickly
forgotten in times of plenty.
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And the story takes
another twist.
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On their way home, Tait's pack
attract a band of roving males.
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And with these reinforcements,
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they not only reclaim some
of Tait's old territory,
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but also perform a ritual
never witnessed before.
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With these haunting calls, they
are choosing their new leader.
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And the chance to continue
Tait's bloodline.
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Six months later,
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hidden away in a secluded
part of the forest,
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a litter of seven tiny puppies.
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They're born to Tammy,
Tait's youngest daughter,
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and now heir to Tait's throne.
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With these new arrivals,
and the new males,
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Tait's old pack has bounced
back to 23 members.
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Tammy now leads a pack that is once
again a force to be reckoned with.
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Back in the west, with
the conflict long over,
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Blacktip has produced 10
healthy puppies of her own.
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Balance has finally been
restored to Tait's dynasty.
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There are only 6,600 painted
wolves left in the world.
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To date, we count 280 descendants
from Tait's bloodline.
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Tait's contribution to the survival
of this species is unparalleled.
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Her dynasty feels secure.
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For now, at least.
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Of all the animals
featured in this series,
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painted wolves range over
the greatest distances.
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To document the unfolding
story of Tait and Blacktip,
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the team first needed to find
them, and that required help.
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This film is
essentially undoable
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without people who
really know the dogs.
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Principally Nick and Henry.
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Nick's been working with
the dogs for years.
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Not only does he know how to
track them incredibly well,
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but he also knows their
habits and their behaviours.
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So, for 20 years, I've
been watching these dogs,
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and when you're sitting on the
ground and you've got them
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running around you, and they're
totally unfazed by you,
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that's a great experience.
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Nick Murray can identify all
of the 91 painted wolves
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that the team saw
on the floodplains.
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But there's one individual
that he knows better than any.
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MURRAY We've been
interacting with Tait
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for literally ten-and-a-half
years of her life.
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With each successive
litter that she has,
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we've got to know
all of those dogs
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when they come out of the den
and spend time with them.
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Nick's knowledge of who
is related to whom,
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meant the team knew that it was Tait's
own daughter who was challenging her.
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What was unfolding in front
of camera was a family drama.
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The crew not only have
a team of trackers,
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luckily the filming coincided
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with a research project.
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The reason for collaring the dogs is
to aid our monitoring of the pack.
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Because we're actually able
to physically follow the dogs
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so we can record
their movements,
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their territory size,
where they're going.
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And that builds up a
picture of their land use.
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In open landscapes, these
collars can transmit for miles.
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But in the mixed
habitat of Mana,
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the signal often struggles
beyond 500 metres.
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This is where Nick and Henry's
tracking skills really come into play.
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Henry's been incredible on this.
His tracking is unbelievable.
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Tracks are the key
to the Whole game.
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They tell the story.
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And it's Henry's
highly-tuned tracker senses
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that allow the team to capture
the pivotal moment in the film.
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The team are
tracking Tait's pack
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when they drive through a pile of
droppings from the painted wolves.
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I recognised the smell which
is Blacktip, not Tait.
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Blacktip's diet of baboons
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is enough for Henry to be
able to tell the packs apart
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simply by smell alone.
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The team quickly switch from
following Tait's radio channel
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to Blacktip's.
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Right away we heard the
very strong "ping, ping,"
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so we carried on
down to the river.
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Sure enough, they
were right there,
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which is an area they'd
never been before.
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It was incredible.
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And then Henry noticed
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some lions approaching
through the grass.
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Knowing that there are
puppies in their pack,
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I just turned my head
away from the scene.
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You know, I just didn't
want to see, um,
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any of the pups getting harmed.
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I just stayed with the lion,
and suddenly this huge buffalo
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came into shot.
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I think what was amazing for me
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was to see the lions
interact with the dogs.
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But to then catch a buffalo
under the very same tree,
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that's just ridiculous.
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I tell you, I just like stood
there dumbfounded, mesmerised,
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seeing the whole scene
that was going on.
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It was like a dream, really.
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To try to capture every aspect
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of the unfolding story,
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it was sometimes necessary
to have five camera teams
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working simultaneously.
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We've got 52 cases of kit.
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A Cineflex, a night thermal
camera, and umpteen other things.
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It's very ambitious, what
we're trying to achieve.
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Not wanting to miss a thing,
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our teams follow both packs,
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on the ground,
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and in the air.
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One ground team with Tait,
the other with Blacktip.
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Employing the latest in unmanned
aerial camera technology
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allows the crew to
capture unique views
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as the pack go about their
business undisturbed.
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To cover more ground the
crew bring in a helicopter.
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And as the days draw to an end,
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the latest ultra high-definition,
low-light cameras
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capture the action,
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even when it's almost
too dark to see.
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And once complete darkness
falls, the night team take over.
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A thermal camera can penetrate
the darkness with no need
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for any artificial light.
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You know, to get those shots,
it takes a lot of skill.
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And that is not our skill,
that is our guide's skill.
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Oh, there they are, over there.
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The yield of shots has gotten
better and better on every shoot.
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On the last shoot we were
with them every day.
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And that's What's brilliant about
being able to put true time in.
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And it's tough, actually,
because you spend
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day in, day out with these animals
for months and months and months.
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And their lives become
very important to you,
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and the story can be incredible.
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But it's actually quite an
emotional roller-coaster
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to see what happens to them.
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This story of family rivalry
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only began because Blacktip was unable
to expand her territory away from Tail;
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and was forced instead to
invade her mother's lands.
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The biggest problem facing painted
wolves today is habitat loss.
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Basically, they're
running out of space.
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We have isolated National Parks
surrounded by human settlements.
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In the modern world,
that means they're
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running across roads,
they're hitting snares,
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getting poisoned.
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It's a... It's a tough
world out there for them.
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7% of painted wolves
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actually live outside of
the National Park system.
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Their future is very bleak.
It's not looking good.
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So the wild dogs of the
Zambezi Valley are lucky,
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because these dogs can travel from
park to park, through corridors.
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But that's not the case
in most areas in Africa.
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If you came back in
ten years' time,
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I think Tammy's descendants
will still be around,
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battling it out against
the lions and hyenas.
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It's a tough life, never
mind the human conflict.
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Painted wolves, individually, may
lack the nobility of a lion,
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but the subtlety of
their communications
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and the complexity of
their social organisation
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gives them a fascination
all of their own.
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Surely they deserve
to hold their place
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alongside the great hunters
of the African plain.
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Next time...
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A tigress struggles to
rear her new family.
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Rivals are trespassing
on her territory.
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Can she raise her cubs
through adulthood?
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