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Discovering the Smallest Wild Dog in the Vast Sahara

Over the course of filming "Dogs in the Wild", the filmmakers learned that not all wild dogs are easy to film. Among the most difficult to film was not only the tiniest wild dog but also lives in the Sahara Desert: the fennec fox.

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