Known for its impressive 90% hunting success rate, the African Wild Dog stands as one of Africa's most efficient and ...

Africa is home to a diverse array of fascinating lifeforms, including hyenas and wild dogs. Many people confuse the wild dog with a hyena, but the two predators are very different in terms of their ...

Hyenas: Hunting Strategies. Wild dogs and hyenas hunt for similar prey, which puts them at odds in competition for resources. Both are carnivores and will eat animals such as impala, ...

A mother cheetah with four young cubs trailing her notices two big predators on their way to try and nab them.

Hyenas come from a family of their own, Hyaenidae which includes four species. ... In the cases they do hunt, striped hyenas will go after smaller animals, such as reptiles, rodents or insects. ...

Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) are known to hunt a variety of larger mammals such as zebras and antelopes in southern and eastern Africa -- but also ostriches, flamingos, reptiles, other carnivores.

Hyenas once stalked the Arctic, fossils reveal. The prehistoric predators may have had shaggy coats that changed colors with the seasons, helping them hunt caribou and mammoth.

When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a trick on him. ... more herbivores like gazelles for hyenas to hunt.

Although the hyenas outmatch the wild dogs in size, they are way outnumbered. The Pondoro Game Lodge, located in South Africa, caught the amazing footage as a pack of African wild dogs harass.

Spotted hyenas are known for hunting (or scavenging) larger mammals such as antelopes and occasionally feed on smaller mammals and reptiles. Being flexible in the choice of prey is a strategy of ...