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Human-wildlife conflict poses a significant risk to wide-ranging carnivore populations worldwide. Management techniques that promote localized, spatial separation and reduce conflict between humans and wildlife are key to carnivore conservation. However, there is a lack of experimentally-verified deterrent methods for maintaining spatial separation between humans and wildlife. Manipulating animal movement by co-opting behavioral mechanisms, such as mimicking conspecific interactions or creating landscapes of fear, offer promising, theory-driven solutions to managing wildlife. For territorial carnivores in particular, researchers have successfully altered movement and behavior of animals using translocated scent in empirical experiments, yet most did not consider management implications. Here we experimentally tested the impact of translocated scent on the behavior, movement, and space use of 5 African wild dog packs in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, to investigate whether translocated scent can be used as a conservation tool. This three-month experiment included simultaneous exposure of all packs to both experimental and control treatments. Packs were more likely to find and behaviorally respond to wild dog scent than to control scent. While packs were more likely to investigate treated areas compared to controls, they reduced the distance they traveled beyond their territories by 21.1 % on average (95 % confidence interval: 8.5 % to 33.7 %, p-value = 0.0327), suggesting scent acts as a finer-scale attractant but a larger-scale deterrent. Additionally, packs had more consistently directed movements through treated areas (Pearson's r = 0.81). Our results suggest that manipulating territorial animals through translocated scent is a potential conservation method for managing extra-territorial forays into, or settlement within, human-dominated areas where conflict may occur. We argue that the targeted use of translocated scent during certain times of year or to manage specific behaviors, such as den-site selection or settlement of dispersers, could be an effective, non-lethal deterrence strategy for African wild dogs, with potential for other territorial species.