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explorers. Grant, Speke, or Coke ; or scientifie zoologists, 
Lichtenstein and Gunther. 
Among the foes of the antelope mention must be 
made of the wild dog [Lycaon pictus). This animal is 
something like a hyaena, and is often mistaken for a 
small hyaena. 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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