Current Affairs
Daily Bits

Dhole (Asiatic wild dog)

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Environment
  • Published
    4th Aug, 2020
  • Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh rank high in the conservation of the endangered dhole in India.
  • Dhole is an apex social carnivore in the tropical forests of South and South East Asia.
  • Dholes are susceptible to rabies, canine distemper, canine parvovirus and sarcoptic mange among others which are usually contracted from domestic village dogs that act as reservoirs.
  • Endangered –IUCN.
  • CITES – Appendix II.
  • Schedule II of wildlife act.
  • In 2014, the Indian government sanctioned its first dhole conservation breeding centre at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) in Visakhapatnam.

Verifying, please be patient.

X