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Lyngdoh, S.; Gopi, G.V.; Selvan, K.M.; Habib, B.
Effect of interactions among ethnic communities, livestock and wild dogs (Cuon alpinus) in Arunachal Pradesh, India
2014 European Journal of Wildlife Research (60): 771-780
A questionnaire survey in 48 villages covering over 10,000 km2 in Arunachal Pradesh, India, was conducted to quantify the livestock depredation and resultant killing of dholes in retaliation. Depredation was reported to be caused highest by dhole (_Cuon alpinus_) in comparison to tiger (_Panthera tigris_) and leopard (_Panthera pardus_). Respondents claimed major losses (7.90 %) of socio-culturally valued livestock, i.e., mithun (_Bos frontalis_), to depredation. Scat analysis revealed livestock constituted only 10 % of the diet of dhole, tiger and leopard. Mithun depredation by dhole was correlated with hunting (r?=?0.54, P?
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