Painted Wolves of Africa: A Photographic Journal by Wayne Osborn
This book showcases our experiences with painted wolf packs during our African travels. It includes images from pups at the den through to the excitement and brutality of the hunt.
Locations include Botswana’s Okavango Delta and Linyanti, Tanzania’s Serengeti and Selous, Kenya’s Masai Mara, Sabi Sands in South Africa and South Luangwa in Zambia.
Painted wolves (Lycaon pictus) are known by many names including African wild dogs, African hunting dogs and painted dogs. David Attenborough in the recent series BBC Dynasties suggested painted wolves is the most accurate and appropriate. Lycaon pictus translates directly as painted wolf.
Population estimates of 6,600 in less than 700 packs stand them at significant risk of extinction. They are Africa’s second most endangered carnivore after the Ethiopian wolf. Continued reduction in wilderness areas and growth in domestic farming threaten their future.
ANZEC Member - Wayne Osborn
Wayne has been an active SCUBA diver and Underwater Photographer since 1974. He resides in Perth, Western Australia with his wife Pam. They have an interest in whale conservation and have travelled to the Azores, the Great Barrier Reef and Tonga to document sperm, minke and humpback whales. Wayne and Pam donate many of their images to whale researchers and have documented the migration of humpback whales along the Western Australian coast since 2006. Pam has photographed 2,500 individual humpbacks in that time. Their images have been included in numerous reference books and Wayne's image of a dwarf minke whale is on the cover of the 2nd edition of Marine Mammals of the World.Wayne was the Australian Geographic Australasian Nature Photographer of the Year in 2012.They have published a number of iBooks including "In Pursuit of Whales" and "A Long Lens in Africa - Birds of East & Southern Africa."
