Wolf (Canis lupus)

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Body size of the Indian wolf, in comparison with the dhole:

Check this new comparative image of sizes, between the Indian wolf and the other "large" canid from India, the dhole:

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It is incredible how little information is about these two animals, in question of size, and this apply to all the other Indian animals, at exception of the tiger and the leopard. However, I managed to found real measurements (in the flesh, not from skins or random averages), in order to create this comparison.

For the dhole, I excluded the specimens from other areas, like Thailand or Russia, so I name it only "Indian dhole". A weigh of 30 lb for a male was excluded as it is described as "thin", which suggest a bad state.

For the wolf, the largest head-body length (109 cm) was estimated from the largest specimen recorded (147 cm TL) in base of other three specimens with known head-body length and total length. I choose to do it because they had a strong correlation between head-body and total length (r=0.96) so I decided to show how large was the largest male recorded. Pocock mentions another male, but he labels it as "young", so it was not included in the list.

By the way, in this occasion, I created a gray silhouette in order to show a comparison between the average specimens and the largest ones. I decided to make this changes in order the improve the presentation of the images and the data itself.

Hope you like it, suggestions are welcomed. If you have more data, that you could share about these particular animals, feel free to post it.

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