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Hound

A hound is a type of dog that assists hunters by tracking or chasing the animal being hunted. Compare with gun dogs, which assist hunters by identifying the location of prey or retrieving it rather than by chasing it.

There are three types of hound, with several breeds belonging to each type:

Type	Example
Sight hounds, which follow prey by keeping it in sight. This type of dog is very fast and will catch and kill or neutralize the game themselves.		Whippet
Scent hounds, which follow prey by tracking its scent. This type of dog have endurance, but are not fast runners.		Basset Hound
Aboriginal hounds, which follow prey by equally using both sight, scent and hearing. This type of dog is both fast and have endurance, but they are not as fast as the sight hounds.		Kritikos Lagonikos

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