Information about wild dogs

 

Wild dogs are one of the medium-sized dogs that live in Africa and are easily recognizable because of their brightly colored mulberry, wild dogs are called many names including African Hound, Cape Hound, African Dog Decree, Wolf Decree, The ornate wolf.

Wild dogs live all over sub-Saharan Africa. They usually travel in deserts, open plains and dry savannahs. Wild dogs were previously found in more than 40 African countries, but this number has become much lower today, Only 25 countries, most notably national parks in South Africa, as well as in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

The wild dogs range from 75-110 cm and weigh between 17 kg and 36 kg. African wild dogs are easy to identify because of their red, black, white, brown and yellow fur. These wild dogs help camouflage and hide. , Wild dogs have large ears and long mouth and long legs each leg ends with four fingers, unlike the rest of the dogs that have five fingers in each foot as wild dogs have a large stomach and long and large intestines help absorb moisture from them more effectively than food, maximum speedCan be launched by wild dogs are 72 kilometers per hour and an average age ranging between 10-13 years.

Wild dogs of carnivores usually hunt their prey in groups and feed on mammals such as pigs, many kinds of antelopes and supplement their diet from rodents, lizards, birds and insects. Wild dogs can chase their prey for long periods as they continue to chase for several kilometers at the same speed.

Wild dogs live in large groups controlled by one dominant male. The male takes only one wife, the gestation lasts about 70 days, the female wild dogs give birth between 2-20 small cubs, and the young remain with the mother during the first few weeks of age. The cubs begin to eat after a period 2 - 3 months after birth and leave the mother only after she becomes able to live alone.

One group of wild dogs usually consists of 10 to 30 individuals. These groups have strict rules on which members of the community walk. Wild dogs communicate with one another through touch, movement and sound. Wild dogs generally thrive after dawn and sunrise.

Due to the large size of wild dogs and their presence in groups that are not threatened by predators in the areas where they live but from blacks and hyenas sometimes when a wild dog is separated from the group, but the number of wild dogs is now decreasing significantly due to loss of living areas As well as hunting by local people and wild dogs have become endangered animals, and it is believed 

that the numbers of wild dogs now reach about 5,000 individuals.