SIGHTING OF DHOLE OR INDIAN WILD DOG CUON ALPINUS AT FAKIM, KIPHIRE DISTRICT, NAGALAND, INDIA

摘要

While driving from Fakim village (25°48'N; 94°56'E) to Pungro (25°51'N; 94°54'E) Kiphire district, Nagaland, on May 02, 2011, we saw a pack of six dholes Cuon alpinus crossing the track around 15:45 hrs. Their progress was disturbed / intervened by the appearance of a local villager at the other end of the road. Cornered between our slow moving vehicle and the man on foot, who was pelting stones at them, they reacted immediately. The two adults and two pups, which were in front, bolted and managed to cross the road to vanish into the dense undergrowth, while two pups hesitated, and instead of following their parents, retreated downhill. They were thus separated from the main pack and were attacked by the villager. Fortunately, the pups were nothit by the stones thrown by the villager and they managed to escape.