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Dhole
Cuon alpinus
Cuon alpinus is an Asian wild dog built around a single design change: it has one fewer pair of lower molars than a wolf or a jackal, and the heel of its lower carnassial tooth is a sharp blade rather than a crushing basin. That is a dentition tuned entirely for slicing meat, an…
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- Dholes lack a third lower molar, a unique dental feature that distinguishes them from other wild dogs and wolves.
- Dholes have no true howl; their repertoire is whistles, clucks, screams and a strange chattering that carries through undergrowth where a howl would echo uselessly. Pups are fed by the whole pack, and non-breeding adults will bring food back for weeks, which is closer to African wild dog society than to wolf society. They are among the very few canids that will hunt in daylight in tiger country, and they occasionally lose kills to tigers but have been recorded mobbing them. Despite Kipling's red dogs of the Dekkan, dholes very rarely come into conflict with people.
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