GUWAHATI Overlapping prey availability or habitat suitability could dictate a positive association between dholes and tigers, facilitating co-existence or even cooperative behaviours between the two species of carnivores, a new study has found.
The dhole or Asiatic wild dog (Cuon alpinus) is the only endangered wild pack-living canid in the tropical Indian forests and is considered at high risk of extinction.
The study through camera traps by Urjit Bhatt and Salvador Lyngdoh in western Assam’s Manas National Park also revealed that the diurnal activity of the dholes had the highest temporal overlap with leopards and the lowest with clouded leopards.
