What dog is called a dog but is not a dog

African wild dog. According to the information released by the Yangtze River Daily can be known, the African wild dog is a canine, its Latin scientific name for Lycaonpictus, meaning "painted wolf", but in fact, it is neither a dog nor a wolf. Millions of years ago, the ancestors of the African wild dog in evolution and the ancestors of the dog "parted ways", they are a separate species under the canine family.