Climate change denier? Ask Laikipia wild dogs

A pack of Wild dogs at a reserve in Laikipia. [Kibata Kihu,Standard]

When Lekitasharan Lepulen, 26, remembers his childhood in Kirimon, Northern Kenya, he recalls his mother's warnings not to go out at night, or stray far from home.

Nights in the Laikipia plateau were different then. They were darker, noisier and wilder. The howls of unknown beasts often made him and his siblings shudder in fear.