Three African wild dog brothers left their Zambian pack in 2025; eight months later, they had travelled 4,126 km, the longest recorded dispersal by an African mammal

• The three males departed from the Mayukuyuku Pack in Kafue National Park in July 2025 and were tracked using GPS collars as researchers followed their movements across a landscape of protected areas, game management areas, roads, reservoirs and cities.
• The findings, published in Ecology, document what researchers describe as the longes