Size comparisons

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I want to ask for a size comparison between striped hyenas (or hyenas in general) and indian wolves (or the most common wolves in general). The reason for this is this paper (credits to MightyKarza):

http://www.canids.org/CBC/18/Wolf-hyaena..._India.pdf

While i really enjoyed to read about wolf - hyena interaction, one paragraph is very confusing:

"The coexistence of wolves and hyenas is a complex balance between competition of prey availabiltiy, which to some extent within the ecosystem determines which predator is more dominant. Among carnivores, interference may be asymmetrical (one species is cleraly dominant over the other), but dominance is typically based on size (Peterson 1995; Palomares and Caro 1999). Wolves being larger in size and living in packs could therefore have advantage over hyenas, as was also observed in this scenario."

Indian wolves bigger than striped hyenas? I thougt indian wolves are just barely bigger than dholes and striped hyenas from the indian subcontinent are considered to grow larger than other populations of this subspecies.
Or are the wolves from Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary (which is neighbouring Ranthambore btw) able to grow as large as their relatives from the northern hemisphere?

According to Dunbar Brander, the weight of the indian strpied hyena is about 85 lbs for males and 75 lbs for females. source: https://archive.org/stream/PocockMammalia2/pocock2#page/n85/mode/2up page 70
That would mean, it is the opposite ratio compared to spotted hyenas.
Also in Pocock's Mammalia2 on page 92 there are samples about the indian wolf, the heaviest male weighing 53 lbs.

Despite my doubts about that paragraph, im surprised that the wolves were able to chase away a group of hyenas. Especially if we consider the clip about one striped hyena facing 12 arabian wolves! Also, there are cases where striped hyenas were able to hold their ground against leopard's and even able to chase them away from a carcass.
This would probably deserve a own thread maybe... Reply