Photo of the Day #160: Wild Dogs

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A pair of wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) playing at the Bronx Zoo (I apologize that it's a bit blurry).

As you might have seen in the last post, my computers and camera were stolen this past weekend so I have lost 99% of all the photos I've taken over the past two years. I still have a few I had burned to discs, though, so even though I don't know when I'll be able to take more photographs (being I have no camera) I'll still have some fodder for the Photo of the Day.

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