Animals / Mammal

African wild dog

Lycaon pictus · Canidae

The African wild dog, also called painted dog and Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is the largest wild canine in Africa and the only extant member of the genus Lycaon, which is distinguished from Canis by dentition highly specialised for a hypercarnivorous diet and by a lack of dewclaws.

Where the African wild dog lives

Recorded in South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia (Africa).

Most records fall in Mpumalanga, North-West, Limpopo, Rift Valley, KwaZulu-Natal and Matabeleland North.

See the African wild dog’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Endangered (EN). In danger of dying out in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 2,143 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.