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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 .
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway East Africa in 1898.
In the original draft of the film, the hyenas were African wild dogs, referred to as "cape dogs" in the film. [1] Their species may have been changed to illustrate the strong rivalry and competition between lions and hyenas in real life, where the competition is much stronger than between lions and other African savannah predators.
Roar is a 1981 American adventure comedy film [3] [4] written and directed by Noel Marshall.Its plot follows Hank, a naturalist who lives on a nature preserve in Africa with lions, tigers, and other big cats.
This is a list of notable films that are primarily about animals.This include film where the main characters are animals or the plot revolves around an animal. While films involving dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are included on this list, those concerning legendary creatures, such as dragons, vampires, or animal-human hybrids like werewolve are not.
According to Ben Mankiewicz, who introduces the film on Turner Classic Movies, the production unit mainly used wild lions. [ citation needed ] The making of the film was a life-changing experience for actors Virginia McKenna and her husband Bill Travers , who became animal rights activists and were instrumental in creating the Born Free ...
Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, [1] typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.. Though killer animals in film have existed since the release of The Lost World in 1925, [2] two of the first motion pictures to garner mainstream success with a "nature run amok" premise were The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock ...
Dynasties is a 2018 British nature documentary series on five vulnerable or endangered species known to form enduring populations: chimpanzee, emperor penguin, lion, tiger and African wild dog. The series is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit [1] [2] and narrated by David Attenborough. The music score was composed by Benji Merrison. [3]