Best Animal in Hunting Its Prey
If there was the title, ‘Best Animal in Hunting Its Prey’, which animal do you think would win this title? Obviously, man would come up as the winner and in this article we have to omit man for obvious reason. Whilst every animal is a good hunter for its prey in its own way, the African Wild dog is indeed world’s greatest hunter. There are indeed other world’s greatest hunters such as Spider, Great White Shark, Wolf (related to African Wild Dog), Alligator Turtle, etc.
African Wild Dog
When you look at the strategies applied by the African Wild Dog, no doubt you will agree the African Wild Dog is indeed the best animal in hunting. The African Wild Dog is known by the following names:
1. Painted Dog
2. Painted Hunting Dog
3. African Hunting Dog
4. The Cape Hunting Dog
5. The Spotted Dog
6. The Ornate Wolf
7. The Painted Wolf
8. Wildehond
9. Mbwa Mwitu
Efficiency in Hunting
Hunting is the pursuit, capture and killing of wild animals as prey for food. Efficiency in hunting is considered as the catch per unit of effort. An animal having a success rate of 30% of the time it attempt to catch a prey is efficient. The African wild dog has a success rate of 80% which rank the African wild dog as one of the world’s greatest hunters. Contrast this with 55% for the Great White Shark and 30% for the African lion.
Canid
The African wild dog belongs to the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes the domestic dog, wolves, foxes, jackals and coyotes. A member of this family is a canid which therefore means that the African wild dog is a canid. The African wild dog as the name suggest is only found in Africa and in particular eastern, central and southern Africa. The dog has on average a weight of 20 kilograms but in extreme cases it can weigh up to 45 kilogrammes. The Africa wild dogs will generally look lean with a body length of 3 - 4 feet and a tail length of 1 – 2 feet. Its height at the shoulder is about 2.5 – 3.5 feet.
Learning How to Hunt
The African wild dog has a gestation period of 2.5 months and will give birth to an average of 10 litters called pups. After birth, weaning takes about 2.5 months after which the pups join the pack in learning how to hunt. At the age of 1 year, the pups will have learnt and grown enough to hunt, capture and kill to feed themselves. After 14 months, female pups may leave their parents pack and look for other packs that lack sufficient females. Males are expected to remain at their parents’ pack and enhance its strength.
Intelligent Hunting Strategies
The African dog has intelligent hunting strategies that ensure that more than 80 out of every 100 hunts that they initiate succeed with a catch. The lions, who boast themselves as the kings and queens of the jungle has poor success rate of 30%. However, it’s important to note that a catch success rate of 30% is considered an efficient rate of catching a prey in the jungle.
Convergence
A pack can have an average of 15 dogs but can grow as large as 30 dogs and in the past packs of 100 dogs have been known to exist. Ideally, the dogs will chase a prey in an open long chase at the same time vocalizing in sounds that are meant to coordinate their movements. The strategy of the chase is planed in such a way that the dogs’ movement from several directions will converge simultaneously with the position of the prey.
Mindful of Others' Welfare
Like humans, the African wild dogs are very mindful of unfortunate members of the same pack. These members include the sick dogs, injured dogs and the very old dogs that cannot keep up with the hunting. In addition, they have to care for the dominant female who is usually left behind taking care of the pups together with any other dogs that may have been left behind guarding the den. They do this by regurgitate meat from the catch. This is done by throwing up or vomiting some of what has been swallowed to feed the unfortunate ones. Their favorite catch includes the impala, Thomson's Gazelles, Springboks and young wildebeests.
Hunting Large Animals
When the African wild dogs are in high spirits of hunting, they will attempt to hunt large animals such as large antelopes, warthogs, zebras, buffalos and young giraffes. Catching the large animal is difficult and requires the dog to use more closely coordinated attacks. They will start by making a rapid charge aimed at stampeding and scattering the herd of prey. Once the herd is separated, they all zero down on one animal. One dog will get hold of the prey’s tail, two will keep the face busy and will attack the upper lip, and the others will be busy opening the bowel. By instinct, every African wild dog should learn how to hunt, but the large-animal hunting tactic is a tactic passed from one generation of dogs to the other. Hunting large animals is indeed specific to only a few packs. Below is a video showing the African Wild Dogs hunting an impala.
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If there was the title, ‘Best Animal in Hunting Its Prey’, which animal do you think would win this title? Obviously, man would come up as the winner and in this article we have to omit man for obvious reason. Whilst every animal is a good hunter for its prey in its own way, the African Wild dog is indeed world’s greatest hunter. There are indeed other world’s greatest hunters such as Spider, Great White Shark, Wolf (related to African Wild Dog), Alligator Turtle, etc.
African Wild Dog
When you look at the strategies applied by the African Wild Dog, no doubt you will agree the African Wild Dog is indeed the best animal in hunting. The African Wild Dog is known by the following names:
1. Painted Dog
2. Painted Hunting Dog
3. African Hunting Dog
4. The Cape Hunting Dog
5. The Spotted Dog
6. The Ornate Wolf
7. The Painted Wolf
8. Wildehond
9. Mbwa Mwitu
Efficiency in Hunting
Hunting is the pursuit, capture and killing of wild animals as prey for food. Efficiency in hunting is considered as the catch per unit of effort. An animal having a success rate of 30% of the time it attempt to catch a prey is efficient. The African wild dog has a success rate of 80% which rank the African wild dog as one of the world’s greatest hunters. Contrast this with 55% for the Great White Shark and 30% for the African lion.
Canid
The African wild dog belongs to the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes the domestic dog, wolves, foxes, jackals and coyotes. A member of this family is a canid which therefore means that the African wild dog is a canid. The African wild dog as the name suggest is only found in Africa and in particular eastern, central and southern Africa. The dog has on average a weight of 20 kilograms but in extreme cases it can weigh up to 45 kilogrammes. The Africa wild dogs will generally look lean with a body length of 3 - 4 feet and a tail length of 1 – 2 feet. Its height at the shoulder is about 2.5 – 3.5 feet.
Learning How to Hunt
The African wild dog has a gestation period of 2.5 months and will give birth to an average of 10 litters called pups. After birth, weaning takes about 2.5 months after which the pups join the pack in learning how to hunt. At the age of 1 year, the pups will have learnt and grown enough to hunt, capture and kill to feed themselves. After 14 months, female pups may leave their parents pack and look for other packs that lack sufficient females. Males are expected to remain at their parents’ pack and enhance its strength.
Intelligent Hunting Strategies
The African dog has intelligent hunting strategies that ensure that more than 80 out of every 100 hunts that they initiate succeed with a catch. The lions, who boast themselves as the kings and queens of the jungle has poor success rate of 30%. However, it’s important to note that a catch success rate of 30% is considered an efficient rate of catching a prey in the jungle.
Convergence
A pack can have an average of 15 dogs but can grow as large as 30 dogs and in the past packs of 100 dogs have been known to exist. Ideally, the dogs will chase a prey in an open long chase at the same time vocalizing in sounds that are meant to coordinate their movements. The strategy of the chase is planed in such a way that the dogs’ movement from several directions will converge simultaneously with the position of the prey.
Mindful of Others' Welfare
Like humans, the African wild dogs are very mindful of unfortunate members of the same pack. These members include the sick dogs, injured dogs and the very old dogs that cannot keep up with the hunting. In addition, they have to care for the dominant female who is usually left behind taking care of the pups together with any other dogs that may have been left behind guarding the den. They do this by regurgitate meat from the catch. This is done by throwing up or vomiting some of what has been swallowed to feed the unfortunate ones. Their favorite catch includes the impala, Thomson's Gazelles, Springboks and young wildebeests.
Hunting Large Animals
When the African wild dogs are in high spirits of hunting, they will attempt to hunt large animals such as large antelopes, warthogs, zebras, buffalos and young giraffes. Catching the large animal is difficult and requires the dog to use more closely coordinated attacks. They will start by making a rapid charge aimed at stampeding and scattering the herd of prey. Once the herd is separated, they all zero down on one animal. One dog will get hold of the prey’s tail, two will keep the face busy and will attack the upper lip, and the others will be busy opening the bowel. By instinct, every African wild dog should learn how to hunt, but the large-animal hunting tactic is a tactic passed from one generation of dogs to the other. Hunting large animals is indeed specific to only a few packs. Below is a video showing the African Wild Dogs hunting an impala.
ගත්තේ මෙතනින්..............
http://ngureco.hubpages.com/hub/Worlds-Greatest-Hunters-Best-Animal-Hunter-African-Wild-Dogs
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