It resembles the striped hyena, but is smaller and lacks the robust neck and jaws and large teeth. It has a mane along the back that it is able to hold erect. Its color is yellowish=white with severak black stripes along the body and one or two diagonal stripes acroos the fore and hidquarters. It also has several stripes on the legs. Males and females both weigh about 20 to 30 lb.
A digitigrage, carnivorous quadruped. They live in south africa, the proteless laladi. You could call it a wild dog.