I was driving around in a remote wilderness area of the Greater Kruger National Park when I came across a pack of twelve African wild dogs. Not very far from the wild dogs were two hyenas just randomly standing there, looking at the wild dogs. The two species normally do associate with each other when there is food involved. Hyenas very well know that the African wild dog has a hundred percent hunting success rate. Hyenas will follow wild dogs while hunting in the hope of overpowering the wild dogs and stealing their prey. On this occasion there was no food involved. I was a bit confused by the fact that two hyenas just stood there, staring at the wild dogs while they carried on with their own social behavior of sniffing and licking each other. I became even more confused when one hyena slowly walked up to the wild dogs and started sniffing around with the pack members. For a short while the hyena looked totally part of the pack with the wild dogs not really bothered by its presence. I found this really bizarre with no real explanation of what was going on. Suddenly the wild dogs became distracted by a more distant member of the pack growling at another nearby hyena. After the quick distraction, the wild dogs returned to the hyenas and quickly decided that this unlikely friendship was just not going to work. The wild dogs launched a full-blown attack on the hyenas. The twittering sounds of the wild dogs were met by screams, snarls and growls from the hyenas. After the action disappeared into the bush, I could still hear the wild dogs biting and chasing the hyenas for a long distance until they all eventually disappeared.