Dholes (Cuon alpinus)

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(01-30-2019, 06:44 PM)Shadow Wrote: I have been reading the book: Tiger! The Story of the Indian Tiger (published 1977) from Kailash Sankhala. 

He also say, that there is no other predator like dhole (in India), what comes to teamwork, relentlessness and brutality in hunting. 
He writes, that always when packs of dholes appeared to fields of Kanha, Sankhala noticed, that his chances to see tigers decreased and he had to wait for weeks until dholes left the area.

Shadow, the observations of Dr Kailash Sankhala are quite interesting. Obviously the result of the panic caused to herbivores when big pack of dholes is hunting in particular area lead to temporary lack of prey in this area so tigers are sometimes also enforced to leave temporary the area because there is almost nothing to hunt. That doesnt mean that tiger afraid of dholes but obviosly as Sankhala said scarcity of prey could indirectly cause tiger to leave temporarily a particular area and to return only when the panic among the herbivores is gone and they return to previous grazing grounds. So, again Kipling was right in some way. Reply