Dholes (Cuon alpinus)

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(02-03-2019, 10:36 PM)smedz Wrote:

(02-03-2019, 09:34 PM)Rishi Wrote:

(02-03-2019, 08:39 PM)smedz Wrote: ...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.

People are not afraid of dholes. There's literally been no cases of them attacking people. It's the opposite actually.
Read ahead, about prey take refuge with humans as the packs waited distance & watch the documentary "The Pack" that posted for then giving up hunt white people are around (don't skip through the informations gathered in threads. Go through those first)

They persecution of them were mostly due to their killing livestock gestating in forests.

I was talking about the past, not the present, I already knew Dholes fear people and I have seen that documentary. They got that fear after being persecuted by people for a long time. Just hear me out, back then, tigers were known to become maneaters just as they do today, that obviously made people fear them. Now since hunters, (not including Anderson) blamed Dholes for killing loads of game because apparently they didn't realize Dholes and their prey have coexisted just fine for millions of years, just like hunters in modern times. I do think some people wouldn't like the mass killing of Dholes, but if hunters got many people to believe Dholes were ruthless and bloodthirsty, that could have made those people think Dholes deserved to be exterminated. If they made stories about tigers of all things being killed by Dholes, that could have made some people fear them because if they could do that to a tiger, they could do that to a person, not that they'd actually do that. Hunters where I live have done something rather similar, they convinced some people that coyotes deserve to be killed, which they don't. Some people even fear coyotes thanks to what hunters tell them. So I can see something similar happening back then, only that it became illegal to kill dholes, and now people (in India at least, locals in Thailand think Dholes are overabundant and kill off all the deer which is bullcrap) know better, and Dholes, just like in the past, fear humans and have never attacked a person. But I do think some people in India think Dholes would, but thankfully most locals don't.

One more thing, remember that not all of people observing dholes and the fear what those cause in prey animals are hunters. For instance Kailash Sankhala, idea of him trying to talk bad about some animal is just... well, read his books and you understand better. I recommend his books also if you want to learn about tigers from a man, who spent practically all of his adult life to study and protect them. Nothing more to say to your comments, I concentrate to search more information, it doesn´t happen by itself :) Reply