Dhole: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the dhole lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Cuon alpinus
Group	Foxes, jackals & wild dogs
Status	Endangered (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	2 countries
Continents	Asia
Diet (main food)	vole, vegetable, roe deer, Asian elephant, goral, Bos gaurus, Cervus canadensis, Bos javanicus, Ochotona, Ovis ammon, food waste, Siberian musk deer, sika deer, Boselaphus tragocamelus, carrion, sambar, Chital, Muntiacus, goat, fruit, moose, Rattus, Rangifer tarandus, water buffalo, Sumatran serow, hare, Indian rhinoceros, barasingha, Sus scrofa, wild boar, Indian Peafowl, grass, Semnopithecus, rhubarb, Caspian red deer, red deer, cattle, Urial, Tragulidae, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, rabbit
Class	Mammal
Order	Carnivora
Family	Canidae

Where does the dhole live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the dhole in 2 countries and territories across Asia. Wikidata gives its range as: Nanling Mountains.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What does a dhole eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the dhole as: vole, vegetable, roe deer, Asian elephant, goral, Bos gaurus, Cervus canadensis, Bos javanicus, Ochotona, Ovis ammon, food waste, Siberian musk deer, sika deer, Boselaphus tragocamelus, carrion, sambar, Chital, Muntiacus, goat, fruit, moose, Rattus, Rangifer tarandus, water buffalo, Sumatran serow, hare, Indian rhinoceros, barasingha, Sus scrofa, wild boar, Indian Peafowl, grass, Semnopithecus, rhubarb, Caspian red deer, red deer, cattle, Urial, Tragulidae, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, rabbit.

Is the dhole endangered?

The dhole’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Endangered” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the dhole?

The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a mammal in the order Carnivora and the family Canidae, genus Cuon. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the dhole

The dhole ( dohl; Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to South, East and Southeast Asia. The sole member of the genus Cuon, it is anatomically distinguished from members of the genus Canis in several aspects: its skull is convex rather than concave in profile, it lacks a third lower molar, and the upper molars possess only a single cusp as opposed to between two and four. During the Pleistocene, the dhole ranged throughout Asia, with its range also extending into Europe (with a single putative, controversial record also reported from North America) but became restricted to its historical range 12,000–18,000 years ago. It is now extinct in Central Asia, parts of Southeast Asia, and possibly the Korean Peninsula and Russia.

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Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Dhole (revision 1381055310), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q132585 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).