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• Wild Dog

  The African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the Painted Dog or Painted Wolf, is a highly endangered canid native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is renowned for its unique mottled coat patterns of black, brown, white, and yellow, and its large, rounded ears. African Wild Dogs are highly social, living in packs that hunt cooperatively, making them incredibly efficient predators of antelopes and other medium-sized ungulates. They are known for their endurance and complex social behaviors. This species is endangered due to habitat fragmentation, human conflict, and disease.

  

  Habitat: The Wild Dog lives in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, South-africa, Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Central-african-rep, Chad, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Zambia.