African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Lycaon pictus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Canidae
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Size
- Medium (1–2 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa
- Habitat
- Savanna, Grassland
- Conservation status
- Endangered
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Every individual has its own coat pattern of blotches, so no two dogs look quite alike.
- Before a hunt the pack holds a kind of vote: the more sneezes, the more likely they set off.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q173651 · All animals · All entries