African wild dog slinking low in the grass in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Africa.
Pictured is an African wild dog slinking low in the grass in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Africa. It is also known as the painted dog or Cape hunting dog. The species is a specialized diurnal hunter of terrestrial ungulates, which it captures by using its stamina and cooperative hunting to exhaust them. The photograph was taken from a safari vehicle based at the Atzaro Okavango Camp. The binomial name is Lycaon pictus.
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