Facts about African Wild Dog
Facts about African Wild Dog : African dogs are such amazing and incredible social animals, these form strong bonds among themselves while showing care and supportive to pack members who may be ill or weak, these are known as the intelligent as in their way of communicating and this helps them through all the walks in their life, like in the hunting of food, understanding family roles or locating safety. African wild dogs do like thriving in the most of the variety of habitat including the short-grass plains, deserts, busy savannas, woodlands, upland forests. The African wild dogs are best sighted on a Kenya wildlife Safari, this makes your safari a perfect one.
The African wild dog is one of the world’s most endangered mammals and it can be identified by its long legs and irregular fur patterns on its body, it leaves in the packs, even when it concerns about hunting the African wild dog and once the African wild dog matures, then the males stay with their original packs while females generally seek the new group. The African wild dog has the most incredible hearing with the muscles allowing its large rounded ears to swivel. The African wild dog can be identified by its long legs and irregular fur patterns.
The African wild dog can be at sometimes confused with the hyenas but they are different that is both in the appearance and lifestyle that is the patterned coat, unique to each individual, explains its alternative name of ‘painted wolf’ also the African wild dog has got the unmistakable features including the white tail and the large Mickey-Mouse ears.
The packs are made up of the relatives, all the members help in the rearing pups born to the dominant male and female, that ranges average of 9 to 10 adults plus juveniles are extremely social, both the males and females leave the pack where they were born though the males tend to disperse a year after the females travel farther to the new territories, then the females in the pack are closely related to each other as are the males and the females, and males can in the pack are not so closely to each other the packs average territory is about 234 square miles (606km2) but varies based on how much prey lives in the area the African wild dog probably defend their territory against the intruders and fought them until their death.
African wild dogs are built for stamina that is the packs co-cooperatively, driving their prey to the exhaustion and consuming it quickly the great typical targets for the African wild dogs includes the medium sized antelopes like he impala where they do survive on for food.
African wild dogs are among the most attractive and the most successful social hunters in the entire Africa, they have dagger-like teeth, designed for eating meat, and when hunting prey their bodies cool down after running as fast as 37 miles per hour (60 kph). African wild dogs are sometimes called the painted dogs for the combination of black, tan, and the white blotches across their bodies and each of the African wild dog has got the distinct pattern, but all have black faces and ears, tan foreheads and white-tipped tails.
The African wild dog have got the complex communication system from the others, as these includes both vocalizing and scent marking the dominant pair marks their territory with feaces and urine. Then the members of a pack use the quiet but high frequency sounds to communicate, their whines, tweets and helps the sound like bird calls and the dominant pair howls to signal intruders or a nearby pack as they emit a hoo sound to gather their dispersed pack or to find their lost member.
African wild dogs are the most expert hunters, that is they prefer wildebeest and medium-sized antelopes like the impala, greater kudu, springbok, Thomson’s gazelles these all makes the diet of the wild dog and what they eat depends on what they stay for example in Kenya especially in parts like Samburu, Laikipia the dik-dik adds 70% percent of their diet and that’s why they are more in the area on a safari to Kenya you can witness this, in the entire East Africa the African wild dog in packs of 17 to 43 do consume 3.7 pounds (1.7kg) of the meat on the day average.
In Kenya the population of the African wild dog are as many as 8000 wild dogs in an estimated 750 packs, mostly the majority of the African wild dogs are found in Laikipia and Samburu, in Kenya are always significant on a safari to Kenya you can be recommended to visit the mentioned above areas on a safari to experience the wild dogs.
African wild dogs have got the enemies that is lions and the spotted hyenas the reason being the wild dogs do steal their prey, that is again the African wild dogs need to eat enough meat in order to recover the energy they use while doing the hunting that is on the daily average the wild dogs hunt for 3.5 hours each day to get enough of the food to replace their energy lost while chasing and killing their prey and according to research if other animals let say steals the quarter of their food, the wild dogs can decide to hunt for more estimated 12 hours in a day, Facts about African Wild Dog
In every pack the dominant male and female are the reproductive pair and the females give birth to between 8 and 11 pups after the gestation period of 71 to 73 days then the pups are born in the den where they stay until they are 12 to 14 weeks old and also the African wild dogs at a times also adopt the pups that are not even related to their pack member.
Laikapia in northern Kenya is the most amazing and more attractive to everyone where the tourists can spot the African wild dogs on their safari to Kenya in order to fulfill the dream of spotting the African wild dogs.
