Dholes (Cuon alpinus)

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(02-03-2019, 02:36 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(02-03-2019, 05:01 AM)ShereKhan Wrote: So out of 22 dogs, 12 were killed and even more were seriously injured?
Didn't seem very believable that the entire pack would basically go on a suicide mission vs a tiger like that...

Idea has been to find as much different sources and possible observations as possible. If someone believes or not is another thing. Feel free to believe or not. Sunquist & Sunquist thinked, that it was worth to mention. It is very clear, that some people don´t believe. But dholes have quite a reputation and some people want to find out as much as possible about it. And to what it is based on. How many different sources are there etc.

It is interesting and only way to find pieces to puzzle is to search those. There is one interesting thing, man possible cases seems to come from biologists and hunters, who adore tigers. Still they share these cases for all of us to read. What reason they would have to make their favorite animal to be seen in "bad light"? Tiger fanboys in different forums for instance would never share this kind of stories. They would deny everything and try to make cases, like this last one, to vanish.

Objective researchers then again put everything up for everyone to see. Despite it, that does it look like to be "good" or "bad" for their favorite animal. Because objective truth about things and real interest to learn about wildlife is to look at all the facts, not only those which look nice for someone. At this point there looks like to be quite a lot different sources mentioning incidents, where situations between dholes and tiger have escalated to furious fights. Common feature has been, that it does mean many dead dholes if tiger is brought down. So from that point of view this latest case is not different

Aside from a few, I can guarantee many hunters hated tigers the same reason deer hunters hate coyotes. However, since Dholes have higher success rates than tigers, it's pretty likely they hated Dholes even more so. In fact, hunters blamed Dholes for wiping out entire populations of game, hence why a bounty was put on the Dholes. People also thought they were ruthless and bloodthirsty, and many people likely got that idea from stories like that, and if people begin to fear something, naturally they want it gone. So I think many hunters and hunting guides like those shakari's made those tales not to make tigers look bad, but to give Dholes a bad reputation. Reply