Efforts going to the dogs? Evaluating attempts to re-introduce endangered wild dogs in South Africa
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1 School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa; 2 Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; 3 Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, and Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305, USA; 4 Veterinary Wildlife Services, South African National Parks, Skukuza 1350, South Africa; 5 Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX13 5QL, UK; 6 Endangered Wildlife Trust, Parkview 2122, South Africa; 7 KERI Research, Nelspruit 1200, South Africa; 8 Conservation and Research Center, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA;
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