Asiatic wild dogs
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They’re coordinated hunters and their success rate is high. Kantimahanti said, “Typically, a pack has anywhere between 10 and 30 members. The park has the highest number of captive Dholes in India. The park was identified as a conservation breeding centre for wild dogs by the New Delhi-based Central Zoo Authority. Murthy Kantimahanti, founder of the Eastern Ghats Wildlife Society, has extensively worked with captive Dholes at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Vishakhapatnam. They’re also seen in the Pune and Nashik districts as well as Navegaon and Melghat areas,” Bhatnagar said. In Maharashtra, they are scattered in the Eastern and Western Ghats. The species’ distribution is not continuous. “They are often confused with jackals and hyenas, but are actually more gregarious as they live in large packs. PS Bhatnagar, a scientist at the Zoological Survey of India’s (ZSI) Western Regional Circle (WRC), said not much scientific literature was available on the species. The IUCN data mentioned how there were no area-based regional management plans nor any systematic monitoring schemes in place for the species, which is protected under Schedule II of the Centre’s Wildlife Protection Act (1972). A pack animal, the species finds a place on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List and has been identified as endangered. PUNE: Often confused with jackals or hyenas, uncertainty looms over the population of endangered Asiatic wild dogs (Cuon Alpinus) or Dholes, as they are commonly known, in the absence of adequate documentation work done on the species, which is widely scattered in the Western Ghat ranges.