Dholes (Cuon alpinus)

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(01-25-2019, 10:46 AM)Rishi Wrote: This gaur has been attacked by a pack of wild dogs (Dhole). It obviously got away, but the gaur is left wounded and the dogs hungry.
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/26719...ality.html

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Dhole pack trying to bring down an adolescent separated away from its pack.
http://www.indianaturewatch.net/

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A dhole leader weighs its chances against the bull gaur challenging his pack, beside reservoir of Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala.
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23rd December 2012, the staff of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department found a dead young adult gaur on the boundary of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in a tea plantation.  Curious to see what would happen if the carcass was left to nature, a camera-trap was set until 7th January 2013.
Full story: http://thepapyrus.in/index.php/the-gaur-...gourmands/

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Amazing photos.
Actually in order to prove that in the past dholes has made a mega-packs we have to find out did in the past herbivores in some parts of India has made a seasonal migrations, not in wet, but in more dry regions as Decan plateau in Central India, a bit like in Africa. Do you have any info about chitals, nilgai or sambars gathering in the past in big herds numbering several thousands of animals and migrating? Such a mega-herds of herbivores  for sure would had inforced canid packs to unify in mega-packs, as dholes are not boldly territorial. I think same was the situation in Pleystocene epoch when big game was so abundant that dholes inhabited even North America and Europe.

The only book entirely dedicated for dholes is probably "Whistling hunters" by M.Fox:

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Interesting fact about dholes and tigers is that dholes are diurnal, hunt predominantly during the day while tigers are mainly nocturnal. So when dholes hunt tiger usually nap and when tiger hunts dholes usually nap.... This is obviously interesting way created by nature to avoid prime competence between the two species. Reply