Dholes (Cuon alpinus)

[Wolverine]

Despite these small canids look quite innocent, basically as large foxes, no doubt they are formidable, fierce and mercyless hunters. One of the nick-names of the dhole is "mountain wolf" since it also inhabit mountain areas of Tibet and is capable to hunt even in very rocky stiff mountain slopes thats why the dhole is probably the most acrobatic of all canids. A friend of mine described that he was amazed to see in Moscow zoo how a dhole jumped from standing position more than 2 meters high, making few steps on the wall of the cage, reached the roof of the cage with paws, turn upsite down in the air and landed... as a monkey... unbelievable. Probably dholes has developed such a jumping capabilities in order to hunt mountain goats in rough landscapes.

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