Dholes (Cuon alpinus)

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(01-17-2019, 12:43 AM)Shadow Wrote: One news clip from India. Btw here is also mentioned, that there are observations, that in areas, where dholes thrive, tiger numbers can drop. Actually quite interesting because I remember reading about same phenomena once.

I put link here if that video doesn´t open here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa9DyJcz97Q

I'd wager it's the other way around, Tiger numbers are high, Dholes numbers will drop and if there aren't many Tigers, Dholes can thrive.

You see it in many parks with large Tiger presence, in fact in Tadoba as the Tiger numbers have risen, their Dhole numbers have dropped.
You'll be hard pressed to see a Dhole in Taboba, Pench or Kanha, while you'll see a Tiger almost certainly if you're there for a few days.
"As tigers instinctively kill dholes, the increase in tiger population in Tadoba perhaps has also been an additional reason contributing to the decline of Dhole population here."
https://svasararesorts.com/latest-at-svasara/blog/dholes-indian-wilddogs/


Hopefully we'll find out more on Dholes in the years to come...
Check this out
In a first, wildlife scientists have collared a dhole, the Indian wild dog, with a satellite transmitter to study the habits of the endangered species.

With less than 2,500 individuals surviving in the wild globally, the dhole is already extinct in about 10 Asian countries.

It took a team of scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) over 10 days to to track down a pack of 14 dholes in Bishanpura meadow in the Mukki range of the Kanha National Park. The team tranquilised an adult female, tested its health and fixed a tracking collar around its neck as the rest of pack cautiously observed from a distance.

“We don’t know a lot of aspects of their ecology, which makes conserving dholes far more difficult than tigers,” said Y.V. Jhala, senior scientist at WII.
Conservation ecologists believe the renewed efforts can help protect dholes
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/wildlife-scientists-satellite-collar-a-dhole/article24464757.ece Reply