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RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Tshokwane - 07-01-2017

Credits to Nkorho Bush Lodge.

Wild dogs feeding.

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RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Tshokwane - 08-24-2017

Credits to Africa Geographic.

Wild dog pups greet arriving adults that have been out hunting. Taken in Sable Alley, Khwai Private Reserve, Botswana byMercedes Bailey, Natural Selection.

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RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - HyperNova - 09-06-2017

Hunting success rate of African wild dogs in Selous : 

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Source : Communal hunting and pack size in African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus

RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Tshokwane - 01-05-2018

Credits to Dulini.

'Teamwork'...

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RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Ngala - 01-27-2018

From Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, 16 Nov. '17:
"Last night we watched a pack of wild dogs as they came across an injured baboon. They investigated and left shortly afterwards. They also had an interaction with a herd of wildebeest chasing each other around."

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RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - brotherbear - 01-27-2018

The study shown on post #48 shows that the wild dogs have their greatest success in hunting very fast prey rather than prey that puts up a fight.

RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Ngala - 01-30-2018

From Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve:
"As the sun set, a pack of African Painted Dogs decided to go out in search of their next meal."

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[email protected] - HyperNova - 02-02-2018

(01-27-2018, 03:55 PM)brotherbear Wrote: The study shown on post #48 shows that the wild dogs have their greatest success in hunting very fast prey rather than prey that puts up a fight.

Indeed, african wild dogs are not the magical (excellent at everything) hunters that most documentary try to make us believe.

RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - AlexE - 02-21-2018




Female baboon vs wild dogs

RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - AlexE - 03-15-2018


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RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Tshokwane - 04-02-2018

Credits to Renata Ewald Wildlife and Nature Photography.

Battle-scars.

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RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Wolverine - 01-27-2019

"Territoriality does not seem to be well developed and hundreds of individuals may once have gathered temporarily in response to migrations of the formerly vast herds of springbock in southern Africa (Kingdon 1977)", Nowak, Ronald M. (2005). Walker's Carnivores of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. p. 112

https://books.google.ca/books?id=T37sFCl43E8C&pg=PA676&lpg=PA676&dq=%22hundreds+of+individuals+may+once+have+gathered+temporarily%22&source=bl&ots=rnyjY_WRJV&sig=ACfU3U13tPU6GD_0ZX_w9PNY7QUWYMTXXQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibtPL6m43gAhW0HTQIHQfBAhkQ6AEwAXoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22hundreds%20of%20individuals%20may%20once%20have%20gathered%20temporarily%22&f=false

RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Sanju - 02-16-2019


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"Karma"- pups got baby baboon.

RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Sanju - 02-16-2019





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Wild Dog darting. Funny at the end coz dog is dizzy, Camera man is also darted I think *shaky* footage. LOL

RE: African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) - Lycaon - 03-08-2019

Some great pictures of lycaon pictus manguensis

Credit: https://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Africa/Senegal/East/Tambacounda/Niokolo_Koba/photo1563418.htm



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Credit: https://www.facebook.com/africanwildlifeconservationnews/posts/wild-dogs-documented-in-senegalrecent-evidence-suggests-that-wild-dogs-persist-i/252444234941676/



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