African Wild Dog
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| African Wild Dog or Prairie Dogs [1] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | Caninae |
| Genus: | Lycaon Brookes, 1827 |
| Species: | L. pictus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lycaon pictus (Temminck, 1820) |
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| African Wild Dog range | |
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Canis pictus |
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The African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) is a carnivorous (meaning it eats meat) mammal of the Canidae family. As the name says, it lives in Africa.
References [change]
- ↑ W.C. Wozencraft (2005)
- ↑ McNutt et al. (2008). Lycaon pictus. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2008. Retrieved on 06 May 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is endangered
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