Hi, welcome to Cool Facts About Animals. I'm Ali Wilkinson, and today I'm joined by all three kiddos, Theo, Clara, and Grady.

Hey, guys. And we've also got their animals with them. We've got an owl and corduroy and an eagle. Hello to all our friends.

Today we are doing a special listener request. This one comes from Ingram. He's six years old, and he lives in Rhode Island all the way across the country from us.

We were really excited to get his request because he requested the African wild dog,

which is an awesome animal that I don't think we would have gotten to for a while.

But we learned a lot about how social it is, how much they can

communicate with each other, how good they are at hunting, and a lot of other things. So we're going to

share all those things with you right now. We're going to start up by talking about what they look like.

So Theo, can you help us out by talking about what they look like?

So they have big ears and a white tail and spots.

Lots of spots. They're sort of brown, black and white spotted.

They actually look quite a bit like what you might see in your own house or maybe at a neighbor's house, like a medium-sized dog,

other than the coloring and the big ears. They definitely look like dogs.

We're going to start out by talking about how social these animals are. So, Grady, do they tend to live by themselves? They live in packs. Yeah, and tell me about the packs.

There can be at a 28 who are a tiny bit more.

So they can be a pretty big pack.

And how does the hierarchy work?

High work.

Is there a structure to the pack?

There's an alpha male and an alpha female.

So what does that mean in alpha male?

It means that they're the highest grade. So kind of that mean in alpha male? It means that they're the highest, like, grade.

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