Canid Biology & Conservation Journal · vol. 28 issue 1 · 2025 [PDF]
Distribution Update
First camera trap record of dholes in Banke National Park, Nepal
Shyam K. Shah, Rabin Kadariya, Ajay Karki, Hem R. Acharya, Naresh Subedi, Kanchan Thapa, Bhagwan R. Dahal, Umesh Paudel, Rabin Bahadur K.C.
Abstract
A camera trapping survey has revealed the first photographic record of solitary individuals of the Asiatic wild dog or dhole Cuon alpinus from Banke National Park, Nepal, in January and February 2022. The presence of dholes here seems to be confined to a relatively small area of the national park. We recorded 11 photos of dholes from three different 2 km x 2 km grid cells as three independent detections from a sampling effort of 7,058 trap nights spread across 375 sampling grid cells between January – March 2022 with the primary goal of estimating tiger abundance and density. More research needs to be focused on dholes in the future to garner knowledge on species ecology and conservation