Each wild dog will consume on average 2 - 3 kg of meat per day. The maximum amount that one wild dog has been recorded eating is 9kg in one meal (one third of their body weight!). Wild dogs almost exclusively kill small to medium sized antelope, 25 - 150kg.
How much do wild dogs need to eat?
For starters (as it were), they don't necessarily eat every day. Depending on where they live, the season, the size of the pack, the available prey and other factors, they may eat as infrequently as every second or third day or even longer without suffering any ill effect. A healthy dog can go a week without food.
How much does a African wild dog eat in a day?
As Table 1 indicates, free-ranging African wild dogs consume between 1.2 to 5.9 kg prey/adult dog/day. This does not account for the approximately 1.0 kg of food each adult dog may regurgitate after a full meal for other members of the pack (Fuller, 1990).
What would a wild dog eat?
Wild dogs mostly take small prey such as rabbits, possums, rats, wallabies and bandicoots. However, when hunting in packs, they will take larger animals such as kangaroos and goats. The young of larger livestock such as cattle and horses are also vulnerable to attack.
What do African wild dogs eat the most?
African wild dogs are highly specialized for a carnivorous diet. They hunt gazelles and other antelopes, warthogs, wildebeest and their calves, ostrich, and calves of African buffalo. They also hunt smaller prey such as dik-dik, hares, spring hares, insects, birds, and cane rats.
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