Dog "Fight"

J-N Design

African Hunting Dogs at the Kansas City Zoo.
There are five "puppies" that were born last summer. It is getting hard to tell them from the adults. They were rough housing and playing keep away the other day.









"I've got the leaf, I got the leaf..."



Dog Pile



More photos from this trip Here.

summerz

Darn leaves lol.

JavaLover

Nice. Here in AZ our dogs are always too hot to do anything but lay around.

Maestro

These are wild dogs or are they a related to the Hyena in any way? Nice behaviorals.

J-N Design

JavaLover, it was a crisp cool day in early March that I took these. The crowds had not returned yet so the only visitors these guys were getting were the keepers.

Maestro wrote:

These are wild dogs or are they a related to the Hyena in any way? Nice behaviorals.

Mastro, This is from Wikipedia


The African wild dog or African hunting dog, Lycaon pictus, is a carnivorous mammal of the Canidae family, found only in Africa, especially in scrub savanna and other lightly wooded areas. It is also called cape hunting dog, spotted dog, or painted wolf in English, Wildehond in Afrikaans, and Mbwa mwitu in Swahili. It is the only species in the monotypic genus, Lycaon.

Full article here.

Thanks for the comments everyone. These dogs can get very rough even in captivity. One of the older ones has a limp from his injuries.

JenGrace

Heh, when I first saw the title I saw "Dog Flight" and thought, huh, that ought to be interesting. Still some fun shots though.