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The African wild dog or painted dog (Lycaon pictus) is a carnivorous mammal of the Canidae family.[3] In past centuries it had a wide distribution in Africa.
| African wild dog Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene – present (200,000–0 years BP) | |
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| African wild dog in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | Caninae |
| Tribe: | Canini |
| Genus: | Lycaon |
| Species: | L. pictus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lycaon pictus (Temminck, 1820)[2] | |
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| African wild dog range in red | |
The African wild dog is very social, living in packs. They hunt various kinds of antelopes, wildebeests, zebras, and other ungulates, which they catch by chasing them to exhaustion. Like other canids, the African wild dog regurgitates food for its young, and other adults.[4][5][6] Their natural enemies are lions and hyenas: the lions kill the canids where possible; hyenas frequently steal their kills.[7]
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