<p>At full stride, an uncropped photo at dusk, when the pack in South Africa comes alive from a day of rest and weaves through the bush at full tilt, like a sudden breeze that surrounds you and then slips through the trees to disappear in the blink of an eye.
</p><p>They run at 65 km/hr to exhaust their prey, and they rarely fail (with a 90% success rate versus 30% for lions).  They just keep running until the prey is caught.   
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No two have the same coat pattern. The tail serves as a flag so each can keep a peripheral view of the rest of the pack in the tall grass.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/44124348109@N01">Steve Jurvetson</a> from Menlo Park, USA
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