African Wild Dog

The African Wild dog is about 55-70 pounds, and is about 40 inches from the top of its head to the ground. They can live for up to 10 to 12 years and have 1 litter of 15 pups a year. The African dog lives in the open plains of East Africa,and hunts in packs feeding on gazelles, zebras, rats, birds, other animals sick or young also loners pick off food from other animals kills. Wild dogs look a lot like domestic dogs the only differences is it relatively long legs bat like ears and large thick bone in their jaws. We humans are their only predators the dogs are shot for sport and poisoned for raiding farms. The population has decreased so rapidly the dogs are now on the endangered spices list. So now you can barley see them in the wild, for they are shy and scared of humans.