The African Wild Dog
Subtitle: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780691016559
Subjects: Animal Ecology; Animal behaviour; Endangered species & extinction of species; Mammals; Mammalian Behavior; Nature; Science; Science/Mathematics; Dogs; Life Sciences - Ecology; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Biological Sciences; Science / Biology; African wild dog
First sentence: The scientific name of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) means painted wolf, a reference to their patchwork coats of brown, black, and white, which Angier (1996) aptly called "a furred version of combat fatigues."