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African Wild Dog Relay Hunt (2D)

Top-down African wild dog pack hunt: dogs take turns leading a high-speed chase while the rest of the pack trots behind conserving stamina, relaying the lead role whenever the current chaser tires — the real endurance-relay strategy behind the species' unusually high hunt success rate.

Animals & Their World2DMedium60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion strips the 3D African wild dog scene down to the one mechanic that makes the species' hunting famous: relay pursuit. Instead of one predator chasing until it either catches its prey or gives up, the pack rotates the lead-chaser role — the current leader sprints hard and tires, a fresher packmate takes over the moment it slows, and the cycle repeats until the prey's own stamina runs out from sustained pressure. A pack-size slider shows the real ecological payoff of cooperation directly: more dogs mean more simultaneous flanking pressure, faster prey exhaustion, and a measurably higher hunt success rate — watch the stamina bars and the live success-rate counter to see the strategy actually working.

⚙ Under the hood

Top-down 2D pack-hunting simulation where wild dogs relay the active-chaser role by stamina — the leader sprints and tires, the freshest packmate takes over, and encirclement pressure from flanking dogs drains the prey's stamina until capture or escape.

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install