The hunting strategies of the African wild dog were behavior once shrouded in inaccurate myth. The dogs were formerly considered
among the roughest and meanest
species on the African savanna and bushland. The paper
shows that they were noted for driving out all other species in their regions, for mutilating their victims beyond recognition, as well as for consuming their own kind who had fallen prey to illness or exhaustion. The paper shows, however, that researchers have recently taken a closer look at the animals' morphological, physiological and adaptive characteristics, their methods of locating prey, as well as their prey-capture techniques and food allocation practices. New studies have presented a wildly different version of the African wild dog.