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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