Friday, February 5, 2016

African Wild Dogs

Over shadowed by: Lions
Scientific name: Lycon Pictus
Classification: mammal
Endangered Status: endangered
Size: 141 cm and 18 to 39 km
AKA: Hunting dogs, painted wolfs, and A.W.D.s
Habitat: African savanna, and forests
Diet: Wildebeest, Impala, other antelope, zebra, warthogs, and aardvarks
Predators: lions and hyenas
Closest relatives: other members of the K-9 family, such as the maned wolf, the gray wolf, dogs, red wolfs, fennec foxes, dingoes, coyotes, hyenas, and jackals.
Fun facts: 9 out of 10 African wild dog hunts end in a kill, will eat prey before fully dead, only 6600 left in wild, can run up to 35 miles per hour for hours at a time, and A.W.D.s have been endangered for 20 years

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