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explorers, Grant, Speke, or Coke ; or scientific zoologists, 

 Lichtenstein and Gunther. 



Among the foes of the antelope mention must ho 

 made of the wild dog (Lycaon pictus). This animal is 

 something like a hyaena, and is often mistaken for a 

 small hysena. The wild dogs hunt in packs, which 

 usually number fifteen ; they may be as many as fifty 



The Wild Dog, the terror of antelopes ; it hunts in packs. 



and as few as four. One dog may hunt on its own 

 account, and Selous has given an account of the per- 

 sistent and determined manner in which these vicious 

 animals pursue their prey. He was an eye-witness of a 

 wild dog pursuing a sable antelope. The dog ran by 

 the side of the running animal, and, springing up from 

 time to time, would bite the antelope in the flank. 



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