The local painted wolf/African wild dog pack feed on a nyala and scare a hyena trapped in a cave! Always nice to see a little Hyena Vs wild dog action where no injuries occur. Filmed in the Sabi ...

Staring competition: Painted wolves, or African wild dogs, do everything as a group - even facing up to a hyena They are stunning; there's no question. And the name, "painted wolves", seems so apt.

Monet, a 6-year-old endangered African wild dog who enjoyed cuddling with her siblings, has died at ZooTampa. Screengrab from ...

The African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, also known as the painted dog or Cape hunting dog, is an endangered wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa where it inhabits savannas and arid regions.

The new enclosure has been constructed to meet the dogs' specific needs A pack of six endangered African Painted Dogs are settling into their new home "absolutely fantastically", keepers have said.

Painted dogs (Lycaon pictus), also called African wild dogs, once numbered around 500,000 across 39 countries on the continent. Today, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, ...

we found out how genuinely funny hyenas are They would chase each other and play-fight like dogs, running around ... t have the majestic beauty of the African lion, and they may not have the ...

The scientific name... is Lycaon pictus – which translates as painted wolf. The scientific name (the name by which it is universally known in the scientific community) is Lycaon pictus – which ...

Guests who want to get to know a zoo animal a bit better can book an experience in advance to spend time behind-the-scenes with the white-handed gibbons, African painted dogs, Hartmann’s ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant ...