Although, a hunt may last less than five minutes, it may cover two miles. They kill their prey quickly once they have pulled it to the ground. Once they spot the prey, the dogs charge at the herd and attack an animal singled out from the herd. In the wild, painted dogs hunt animals like antelope, young zebras, wildebeests, and warthogs. Painted dogs rarely dig their own dens, usually using the abandoned burrows of warthogs and other large burrowing animals. In the early morning and evening, pack members engage in mock fighting before going hunting. Painted dogs spend most of the day in their dens or resting together in the shade.
Unlike wolves, there is no single pack leader there are rather divisions of labor, with some dogs caring for and guarding the pups, while the rest are hunting. Like the wolf and the Dhole, the African Painted Dog lives and hunts in packs, numbering between six to twenty members. The African Painted Dog has only four toes, unlike most canids. Each individual dog has its own unique pattern of yellow, black, white! and gray blotches on its coat, although there is sometimes family resemblances of pattern within a pack. A painted dog weighs 44-66.1 pounds (20-30 kilograms). They have a head and body that is 75-100 centimeters (29.5-39.4 inches) long and a tail that is 30-40 centimeters (11.8-15.7 inches) long. African Painted dogs are 60-75 centimeters high at the shoulder.
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