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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.
Zeus turning Lycaon into a wolf; engraving by Hendrik Goltzius.. In Greek mythology, Lycaon (/laɪˈkeɪɒn/; Attic Greek: Λυκάων, romanized: Lukáōn, Attic Greek: [ly.kǎː.ɔːn]) was a king of Arcadia who, in the most popular version of the myth, killed and cooked his son Nyctimus and served him to Zeus, to see whether the god was sufficiently all-knowing to recognize human flesh.
Skeleton of Cynotherium sardous matched with outline of Xenocyon lycaonoides (large). Xenocyon is proposed as a subgenus of Canis named Canis (Xenocyon). [3] One taxonomic authority proposes that as part of this subgenus, the group named Canis (Xenocyon) ex gr. falconeri (ex gr. meaning "of the group including") would include all of the large hypercarnivorous canids that inhabited the Old ...
After finishing high school, Villemarette began cleaning and selling skulls as a side job. [2] After losing his job as a mechanic, he decided to try selling skulls as a full-time occupation. [2] He began by creating a printed list of skulls for sale in 1985. [1] In 1986, Skulls Unlimited was founded as a provider of osteological specimens. [5]
A Belgian auction house is canceling the controversial sale of three human skulls from the country’s colonial-era after sparking criticism The post Belgian auctioneers cancel sale of African ...
Lycaon sekowei is an extinct canid species from southern Africa that lived during the early Pleistocene epoch, dating from 2 to 1 million years ago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Hartstone-Rose and colleagues claimed that L. sekowei was a hypercarnivore just like the modern African wild dog ( L. pictus ), though its front paws were not as specialized for running.
Other researchers propose that the extinct Canis (Xenocyon) falconeri and Canis (Xenocyon) lycaonoides should be classified under genus Lycaon, to give the descent of three chronospecies: L. falconeri in the Late Pliocene of Eurasia → L. lycaonoides in the Early Pleistocene and the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene of Eurasia and Africa → ...
North American wolf biologists and geneticists also concluded that C. rufus and C. lupus lycaon were genetically more similar to each other than either was to C. lupus or C. latrans (B. T. Kelly, unpubl.). In 2002, morphometric analyses of skulls also indicate that the red wolf is likely not to be a gray wolf–coyote hybrid (Nowak 2002).