THE CAPE HUNTING DOG OR 

 WILDE HONDE 



{Lycaon pictus venaticus) 



Known to the Zulus as the Inkentyane (Drummond) or 

 Inkentshana {Kirby) ; the Swazis as the 'Budaja {Kirby) ; 

 Basutos, the Matshabidi (Kirby) ; Amaxosa, the Ixwili 

 [Stanford) 



Books of travel and hunting in South Africa make 

 frequent reference to this formidable wild dog, which 

 scours the country in packs of from a few individ- 

 uals to half a hundred or more. However, the usual 

 number in a pack is a dozen to twenty, for the reason, 

 no doubt, that in small bodies they are enabled to 

 hunt down their prey more efficiently, and as it 

 generally takes the shape of a large antelope, there 

 is sufficient to satisfy the appetite of each of the 

 dogs. 



The Cape Hunting Dog occurs in all parts of 

 Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to Somaliland 

 and Abyssinia. 



These wild dogs are ever on the move. To-day 

 a pack may be in one locality, and to-morrow, fifty 

 or a hundred miles away. 



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