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  2. Lycaon (genus) - Wikipedia

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    Since then, Lycaon has become lighter and tetradactyl, but has remained hypercarnivorous. Lycaon sekowei is known from the early Pleistocene epoch of South Africa and was less cursorial. [1] Some researchers consider the extinct Canis subgenus Xenocyon as ancestral to both Lycaon and Cuon. [2] [3]: p149

  3. African wild dog - Wikipedia

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    The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the painted dog or 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.

  4. Lycaon - Wikipedia

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    Lycaon, a genus containing one extant species, the African wild dog; Canis lupus lycaon, the eastern wolf; Hyponephele lycaon, the dusky meadow brown butterfly;

  5. Category:African wild dogs - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of canids - Wikipedia

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    10 of the 13 extant canid genera left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Canis, Cuon, Lycaon, Cerdocyon, Chrysocyon, Speothos, Vulpes, Nyctereutes, Otocyon, and Urocyon Canidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, and many other extant and extinct dog-like mammals.

  7. Lycaon sekowei - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Eastern wolf - Wikipedia

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    The eastern wolf (Canis lycaon [5] or Canis lupus lycaon [6] [7]), also known as the timber wolf, [8] Algonquin wolf and eastern timber wolf, [9] is a canine of debated taxonomy native to the Great Lakes region and southeastern Canada.

  9. Category:Carnivoran genera - Wikipedia

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