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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.
North America and Eurasia: 2 Red wolf: Canis rufus: 23-39: 40 [8] 1.2-1.65 [9] 1.7 [10] 80: North America: 3: Eastern wolf: Canis lycaon: 23-30: 36.7 [11] 0.91-1.65 [citation needed] 1.8 [12] 70: North America: 4 Maned wolf: Chrysocyon brachyurus: 20-30: 36 [13] 1.5-1.8 [14] [15] 1.9 [16] 107: South America: 5 African wild dog: Lycaon pictus ...
The bush dog is the only extant species in the genus Speothos, [1] and genetic evidence suggests that its closest living relative is the maned wolf of central South America [5] or the African wild dog. [6] The species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN. [7] [8] [9] In Brazil, it is called cachorro-vinagre ('vinegar dog') and cachorro-do ...
There are fewer than 7,000 adult painted dogs in the wild. Their overall population is declining, and they are considered endangered because of human-wildlife conflict, habitat fragmentation, and ...
African painted dogs, also known as African wild dogs, Cape hunting dogs, or African painted wolves, are a unique canid species native to sub-Saharan Africa. There are fewer than 7,000 adult ...
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.
The dogs were born on November 5 and 6 to first-time mother Pele, a 3-year-old African painted dog who first arrived at the zoo in October 2021, according to a news release.
[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 ...