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Re:Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep f... by samatman on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:03PM (#27467091)
Worth pointing out (maybe?) that dogs-the-domesticated-animal are less closely related to the African wild dogs than they are to wolves and coyotes.

All of which are pack hunters and smart ones to boot. It's just that your first paragraph gives the impression to me that "wild dogs" are the same creatures as domesticated ones, just wild, when that is more true of the wolf than it is of the African wild dog. For instance, the African wild dog and the domestic dog can't interbreed.

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Re:Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep f... by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:29PM (#27467853)
Maybe. There was a particular dog breed that I saw all over the place, and it looked a lot like them. Big suckers. Nasty teethies… You didn’t want one of them biting you.

In any case, I’m sure that wolf packs behave in quite a similar manner.

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Re:Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep f... by samatman on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:51AM (#27469781)
Wolf packs do indeed.

There are of course dogs in Africa, and also the African wild dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_dog

Unless you were on safari, what you saw was most likely an African breed of Canis familiaris.

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Re:Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep f... by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:58AM (#27471657)
Saw all of the above. I was born there.

There is a common dog that looks a lot like the Rhodesian Ridgeback (although a lot scruffier). I really liked them.

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