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Kingdom   Animal
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Class   Mammal
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Species   African Wild Dog
 
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Date Updated   Mon Apr 6 19:36:01 2015
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Image Credit  JindoJeff
Image Comment  Young African Wild Dog sleeping in the sun
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African Wild Dog Facts & Trivia for kids
- The African Wild Dog is one of the most social canids, living in packs of 30 or more adults.
- An African Wild Dog pack can hunt very large prey, such as wildebeest, zebra and impala.
- The African Wild Dog has only four toes on each foot, which is unusual for canids.
- The African Wild Dog is the world's second largest wild canid (the gray wolf is the largest).
- The African Wild Dog is also called the painted wolf.
- The African Wild Dog was once widespread in Africa but is now a more reduced and scattered population.
- The coat of the African Wild Dog is highly variable in pattern, but the tip of the tail is usually white.
- Adult African Wild Dogs will spit up their food for their pups to eat.
- African Wild Dogs can run around 34 mph, and can run nonstop for 3 miles.
- African Wild Dog puppies have less than a 40% survival rate in the wild.
- African Wild Dogs can catch diseases such as rabies and distemper from domestic dogs.
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