Wolf (Canis lupus)

[Rishi]

(06-22-2020, 07:49 PM)TheNormalGuy Wrote: @peter where did you find informations on wolves living in Pakistan today ? I didn't find some. Estimates of wolves in Bhoutan, Pakistan and Bangladesh are either unknown or presence unconfirmed.

(Mech and Boitani, 2010)

Presence is more or less confirmed habitat, but there are no numerical estimates. Down south Pakistan has Indian wolf in the Thar desert adjoining area & Balochistan. In the north they have some Himalayan & Tibetan wolves;

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication...n_Pakistan



In Bhutan they are present all over the barren areas of higher Himalayas, at the northern protected areas... Again too vast, remote & sporadic to do any count.

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication...ark_Bhutan

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However there are no wolves in Bangladesh (anymore). The easternmost extent of grey wolves is upto the river Hoogly. Interestingly exactly a year ago last June, an Indian grey wolf seen in Bangladesh after 8 decades was lynched by farmers for killing goats in villages of Sundarban (could have been the one that was caught on camera in a part of the Sundarbans in West Bengal two years ago. Not known.)

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Now south-bengal/Sundarban is a bit tricky. There was no known wolf presence there, but in 2017 that lone wolf was photographed in Indian side... nobody knows how it got there. The Hugli river drawing the Western border of is 3km wide! It's a difficult swim, especially for a wolf habituated to dry lands of Central India.

Edit: Actually in 2008, a livestock eating wolf was trapped by FD that they first mistook for a large golden jackal. So, maybe wolves didn't go locally extinct in western parts of Sundarbans.

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