African wild dogs are not the only animals that vote. Three screeching meerkats are much more likely to get their companions to move than two meerkats making equally loud vocalizations .

African wild dogs, among the most endangered mammals on earth, walking on a trail in Zambia. ... EWD 1355 knows those neighbors by sight, sound and smell; they don’t interest her.

A pack of African wild dogs milled around at dusk, seemingly ready to rumble, as in the musical about New York City gangs. Checking each other out, they made high-pitched whining or chirping sounds.

There are many types of hyenas and a couple of hands full of wild dogs. But today we’re focusing on the most prominent of the lot: the sly spotted hyena vs. the ruthless African wild dog. Do they have ...

An African wild dog. Credit: Mathias Appel/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0. One of the most endangered mammals on Earth, ... CHRISTIE TAYLOR: Yeah, I’m not going to lie, Gabi’s work sounds amazingly cool to me.

The African wild dog is one of Africa’s most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human contact and utilising vast, remote territories to remain out of sight ...

African wild dogs might use facial expressions to communicate with each other as they hunt in packs on the savanna. Arno Meintjes via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED. Puppy-dog eyes are ...

What is certain is that the more of these sounds you hear during a dog vote, the more likely they are to move along to do some dog business together. Proceedings of the Royal Society B , 2017. DOI ...

African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) once flourished from the mountainous areas of sub-Saharan regions to the deserts of Africa. Now endangered, these pack-living relatives of domesticated dogs still ...

Wild dogs, which are also known as painted wolves, are not like other dogs. According to a recent genomic analysis, they split off from the rest of the canid lineage some 1.7 million ago .

African wild dogs are social and live in packs, with the average pack size being between 5 and 20 dogs. Within the pack, there is one dominant male and dominant female, called the alpha pair.

More information: Darnell AM, Graf JA, Somers MJ, Slotow R, Szykman Gunther M (2014) Space Use of African Wild Dogs in Relation to Other Large Carnivores.PLoS ONE 9(6): e98846.DOI: 10.1371/journal ...