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African Wild Dog
Lycaon pictus
The African wild dog is not a dog, a wolf or a jackal. It is the only living member of its genus, cannot interbreed with any of them, and carries four toes on its front feet rather than five — the mark of a lineage that split off millions of years ago. It is arguably the most ef…
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- An African Wild Dog pack can coordinate to chase prey over distances of several kilometers, with success rates exceeding 80%—one of the highest among large carnivores.
- African wild dogs "vote" on whether to hunt by sneezing — the more sneezes, the more likely they go. Their hunts succeed far more often than a lion's, by exhausting prey rather than ambushing it. They feed the old, sick and injured by regurgitating meat rather than abandoning them. They have four toes on their front feet, not five, and cannot interbreed with dogs or wolves.
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