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Photograph by Wilder McNutt
Madison and Wilder McNutt chat with a group during the winter in their living room. The boys live at the Wild Dog Research Camp in Botswana, Africa with their parents. -
Photograph by Wilder McNutt
The camp living room includes a fireplace, a few stools and a very active bird bath. -
Photograph by Lesley Boggs-McNutt
The crew drives across a floodplain in search of a wild dog that has been detected. -
Photograph by Wilder McNutt
A view of Wilder and Madison's parent's tent from the tree house. -
Photograph by Wilder McNutt
The grass is tall and everything is thick and green during the rainy season. -
Photograph by Lesley Boggs-McNutt
Madison warms up by the campfire in the early morning. -
Photograph by Lesley Boggs-McNutt
The upstairs/downstairs office stays cool in the hot, summer months and warm in the winter. -
Photograph by Lesley Boggs-McNutt
Madison and Wilder sit in their camp classroom, where they spend most mornings. -
Photograph by Madison McNutt
Carly Bardikoff, the boys' teacher, reading with Wilder in the classroom. -
Photograph by Lesley Boggs-McNutt
Mongooses have a social structure that is remarkably similar to African wild dogs, which the boys are learning about. -
Photograph by Lesley Boggs-McNutt
Madison and Wilder prepare to go tracking. -
Photograph by Dave Boggs
Lesley, Wilder and Madison's mom, shares a snack with a dwarf mongoose. -
Photograph by Lesley Boggs-McNutt
"Hominy," the camp's yellow-billed hornbill, hangs out with the resident dwarf mongoose troop. -
Photograph by Lesley Boggs-McNutt
Madison and Wilder helping to build their new tree house tent.
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