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Africa’s iconic terrestrial predators – the three big cats, the African painted wolf, and the spotted hyena – are all wondrously proficient predators that fit neatly into place in their ecosystems.

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It was just before the arrival of the rains in the South African Lowveld, when the heat seems relentless.

In 2021, a three-year-old female African wild dog spent a year travelling more than 2,300 kilometres across southern Africa.

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The word carnivore in Africa instantly conjures images of long canines and sharp claws – powerful predators like lions or leopards, capable of rending flesh from bone or enthusiastic painted wolves coursing after their equally speedy prey or perhaps even the sinuous athleticism of Madagascar’s fossa.

Lions vs hyenas. The fractious and competitive relationship between lions and spotted hyenas is well-documented and has been observed across Africa wherever the two species are present in the same place.

For some reason, history has marked the warthog as an object of lampoonery.