Painted dogs

Africa | Painted dog. Linyanti, Caprivi, Namibia | ©Thomas Retterath

The Wild dog is South Africa’s most endangered large carnivore with their large rounded Satelite ears stand out like radars.

Known as painted dogs or painted wolves and previously found throughout most of Africa, the African wild dog Lycaon pictus has disappeared from much of its former range and it is estimated that there are only between 3 000 and 5 500 wild dogs left in the whole of Africa. They are one of the most endangered carnivores in Africa and their current IUCN Status is “endangered with decreasing population trend”. South Africa, one of a few African countries with a genetically viable wild dog…

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The African wild dog, also called Cape hunting dog or painted dog, typically roams the open plains and sparse woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa.

The African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus), also called painted dog, painted wolf, or Cape hunting dog, is a species of canid native to Southern and Eastern Africa. They are one of the most successful predators on the African savanna, and have a 80% kill rate, which is far more superior than the kill rate of other predators like the 25% kill rate of lions. However, they are highly afraid of lions, who will kill wild dogs because of predatory competition, since both of them go for the same prey...

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