This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. Large carnivores in Africa are important from ecological, economic, and cultural perspectives, but human activities put them at risk. Increasingly, lions, hyenas, and African wild dogs are restricted to protected areas like national parks. Within these limited areas, they must compete for the same food sources. Competition is, of course, nothing new. For several million years, African wild dogs have evolved within a set of large carnivores that all prey on the same large…
