Photo of the Day #515: African wild dogs

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African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.


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An African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
An African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
An African wild dog (Lycaon pictus, left) compared to a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta, right). Both photographed at the Bronx Zoo. It never fails. Whenever I visit a zoo's African wild dog exhibit someone inevitably asks "Are those hyenas?", and when I visit spotted hyena enclosures I often hear…
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