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The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also called painted dog and Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa.It is the largest wild canine in Africa, and the only extant member of the genus Lycaon, which is distinguished from Canis by dentition highly specialised for a hypercarnivorous diet and by a lack of dewclaws.
[6] [7] The African wild dog cannot be positively identified in the fossil record of eastern Africa until the middle Pleistocene, [8] and identifying the oldest Lycaon fossil is difficult because these are hard to distinguish from Canis (Xenocyon) africanus. [7] Some authors consider Canis (Xenocyon) lycanoides as ancestral to the genera Lycaon ...
The dhole (/ d oʊ l / dohl; [2] [3] Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to South, East and Southeast Asia.It is anatomically distinguished from members of the genus Canis in several aspects: its skull is convex rather than concave in profile, it lacks a third lower molar and the upper molars possess only a single cusp as opposed to between two and four.
African wild dog Common genet Side-striped jackal Honey badger. There are over 260 species of carnivorans, the majority of which feed primarily on meat. They have a characteristic skull shape and dentition. Suborder: Feliformia. Family: Felidae (cats) Subfamily: Felinae. Genus: Acinonyx. Cheetah, A. jubatus VU. Northwest African cheetah, A. j ...
Sudan cheetah African leopard Spotted hyena African golden wolf African wild dog. There are over 260 species of carnivorans, the majority of which feed primarily on meat. They have a characteristic skull shape and dentition. Suborder: Feliformia. Family: Felidae (cats) Subfamily: Felinae. Genus: Acinonyx. Species: Acinonyx jubatus VU; Genus ...
The breed of dogs, also called African wild dogs, is among the world’s most endangered mammals, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Between 2010 and 2022, the species’ population in the wild ...
A study of nine modern carnivores indicate that one in four adults had suffered tooth breakage and that half of these breakages were of the canine teeth. The highest frequency of breakage occurred in the spotted hyena, which is known to consume all of its prey including the bone. The least breakage occurred in the African wild dog. The gray ...
Articles relating to the African wild dog, a canine native to sub-Saharan Africa.It is the largest indigenous canine in Africa, and the only extant member of the genus Lycaon, which is distinguished from Canis by dentition highly specialised for a hypercarnivorous diet, and a lack of dewclaws.