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Dhole(Asiatic wild dog)🐕

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SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🐕Dhole

Cuon alpinus (Pallas, 1811)

Der Rothund (Cuon alpinus) oder Asiatische Wildhund ist ein in Asien weit verbreiteter Wildhund. Er gehört zusammen mit dem Wolf und dem Afrikanischen Wildhund zu den großen, rudelbildenden Hetzjägern unter den Hunden. Der Rothund findet sich in der Literatur unter zahlreichen Namen, die für Unklarheit sorgen können. Die Bezeichnung Asiatischer Rotwolf kann zur Verwechslung mit dem nicht näher verwandten Rotwolf führen. Der Name Alpenwolf ist aufgrund des Verbreitungsgebiets, das kein als Alpen bezeichnetes Gebirge (insbesondere nicht die europäischen Alpen) umfasst, unsinnig, findet aber in der Literatur Verwendung. Daneben werden gelegentlich die Namen Dhole (indischer Name des Rothunds, etwa in Rudyard Kiplings Dschungelbuch) und Adjak (javanischer Name) verwendet.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
22
Photos
6
Measurements
14
vs you
≈ 1/4th of your weight
Also called
Red Dog, Asiatic Wild Dog, Indian Wild Dog
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
16 kg
Body length
1.06 m
Shoulder height
0.46 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
16 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Dhole

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
16 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 16 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.06 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Shoulder height
0.46 m0.42–0.5 m · typical rangenot stated
Details ↓

'Length of head and body is 88 to 113 cm, length of tail, 41 to 50 cm, height, 42 to 50 cm.' The account says 'height' in a body-measurement series, i.e. height at shoulder. Midpoint of the published range. Verified against the account PDF (OCR of p. 1).

Source: Cohen 1978, Cuon alpinus, Mammalian Species 100:1-3, p. 1, https://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-100-01-0001.pdf · see citation

Brain mass
98 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
16 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 16 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
5.59 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.0 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
62 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 61 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
34 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.32 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
16 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Dhole yet: top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyCanidae
  6. ›genusCuon
  7. ›speciesCuon alpinus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyCanidae
  4. genusCuon
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyCanidae
  14. genusCuon
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More about the Dhole

Closest relative on this site
🐺 Ethiopian wolf — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.5 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals90%
carrion10%
In other languages
豺 (zh), ドール (ja), азиатско диво куче (bg), Dhoul (cs), Dhole (da), Asiatischer Wildhund (de) … and 27 more languages

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