'Deadly dholes of Tadoba'

We were driving through the lake side of Agarzari buffer zone in Tadoba Tiger Reserve, looking for few crocodiles to see, reptiles and amphibians excite me a lot, of-course many birds welcome you with the treat, watching them take a flight, land softly astonishes you anyway.

Swapnil (a local, - excellent wildlife expert) was driving the gypsy that day and his amazing sense and sharp eyes caught an activity in grasses and shrubs, he asked us to sit in the gypsy and not to move. We did as instructed and he wishpered, you all are going to see the best behavior of Dholes ever.

In few minutes, we saw a group of 8 dholes walking across a small water stream approaching a deer, the deer ran to death and escaped and them these 'wonderful beasts' started walking on the road and came walking towards us fearlessly (and yes, why should they fear, we were in their homes, not them).

They came near the gypsy and silently changed their path and went inside tall grasses and came out just behind us to again walk on the road. What an amazing understand they had.

'You don't mess with us and we don't mess with you', is a clear message they had sent silently by their action.

Behaviour:
Dholes (Chou alpinus), they are also called Asiatic Wolf, Indian Wild Dog, Red Wolf, Wistling dogs, carnivores, crazy hunters, they start eating the flesh off the prey’s body when in chase itself as they have small in size and cannot fight tigers or leapords if they come and snatch their kill.

Image Clicked in Tadoba, April 2017