African Wild Dog

AMAZING sighting. 🐾❤️😍 Also known as the Cape Hunting Dog, Painted Dog or Painted Wolf, the African Wild Dog is one of Africa’s most misunderstood carnivores. It is recognised as Africa’s second most endangered predator (after the Ethiopian Wolf) with only between 3,000 and 5,000 left in the wild. Numbers have radically declined across Southern Africa due to habitat loss, poaching, diseases and threats from other predators. Each pack has a dominant female, the 'alpha female', and a dominant ma

Cape Hunting Dog Puppies

The African wild dog hunts by approaching prey silently, then chasing it in a pursuit clocking at up to 66 km/h (41 mph) for 10–60 minutes. The average chase covers some 2 km (1.2 mi), during which the prey animal, if large, is repeatedly bitten on the legs, belly, and rump until it stops running, while smaller prey is simply pulled down and torn apart.African wild dogs adjust their hunting strategy to the particular prey species. They will rush at wildebeest to panic the herd and isolate a vuln

Wild Dog hunt