What a view | Wild dogs, from cute foxes to wolves and jackals, the star of new BBC Earth series on the world’s most widespread carnivore
- BBC Earth’s ‘Dogs in the Wild: Meet the Family’ profiles our pets’ wild cousins, who are essential for the maintenance of a balanced ecosystem
- Meanwhile, in Disney+ K-drama ‘Call It Love’, so much despair drips through the early episodes that it’s easy to see why no one ever seems to smile
It’s a dog’s life – all over the planet, as it happens.
On almost every continent and in the most varied of habitats can be found at least one species of untamed dog – the world’s most widespread carnivore and star of three-part series Dogs in the Wild: Meet the Family (BBC Earth).
Another extraordinary addition to the canon of the BBC’s Natural History Unit, the series proves that ravenous marine monsters and big cats in colourful coats don’t have exclusive rights to the most spectacular wildlife documentaries.
From Japanese forests and the Tibetan plateau; from Australian islands to South American savannah; from Ethiopian highlands to the Arctic, canids, with their 37 family branches, thrive, survive or just about hang on in the face of human land grabs and unchecked hunting.
The Tibetan fox ticks the “cute” box, as do the Arctic fox and the Japanese tanuki, which has adapted to city life in Tokyo’s parks and temples.
