African Wild Dog
Lycaon pictus
- Endangered
- Card rarity: Epic
- Mammals
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.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Canidae
- Genus
- Lycaon