My this article is again about the African Wild dog. This is a story of an impala hunt.
One evening, a wild dog pack started moving towards an unknown destiny. They all were following a path, as if it was predefined for them. Actually they were searching for some hunt. They wandered around for quite sometime. Then suddenly, the first dog halted and so did the other dogs. There was a herd of impala, unaware of them. The dogs were quite on a distant with them. In order to get this hunt successful, they have to get close to them. So they all bent and started moving towards the impalas slowly. A subordinate of the pack took the lead.
The pack kept on coming nearer, when one impala smelled the danger and barked to warn its herd. The herd started running away. The dogs instantly jumped out started running with full run. These wild dogs are capable of pursuing their prey at 25 miles an hour and they can even reach 35 miles per hour. All the dogs were scattered in the forms of groups and they were following their own targets. Only the leader dog of this hunt was capable of catching an impala's young. All the other dogs were facing the failure. This dog started feeding on this impala. It fed and then looked around, feed again and finally leaves to bring his pack mates. After sometime, the other pack members came and started feeding on this impala. And within a few minutes they were done with it. As soon as they left the field, hyena came and started feeding on the leftovers of the impala.
The only advantage that the leader dog got was that of feeding first. These animals have a very social nature and this nature make them to bring the rest of the pack.
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