Abstract
An increasing intensity of camera traps recorded the presence of poorly known and globally Endangered Asiatic Wild Dogs Cuon alpinus from different locations in recent years in Nepal. After 18 years since the previous report, we recorded 29 photos and a video of Dholes in four independent detections with an effort of 4,035 trap-nights during camera trap surveys targeted at tigers in the winter of 2016/2017. Solitary dholes were camera-trapped from four locations within 27.45km2 area in Bardia National Park. The evidence of a dead Dhole probably killed in retaliation shows the threat to the species. Dholes co-exist in Bardia with sympatric carnivores like Tiger Panthera tigris, Leopard Panthera pardus, and Jackal Canis aureus.
Highlights
Shailendra Kumar Yadav, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Naresh Subedi, Ramesh Kumar Thapa, Laxman Prasad Poudyal & Bhagawan Raj Dahal
Materials and Methods As part of tiger monitoring in the western Terai complex, a camera trapping survey was conducted in the entire Bardia National Park (968km2) and the adjoining forest patches from December 2016 to February 2017
A total of 269 grid cells of 2x2 km2 were superimposed on a map of Bardia National Park (BNP), and 257 of these were surveyed in a b four shifts successively
Summary
Shailendra Kumar Yadav, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Naresh Subedi, Ramesh Kumar Thapa, Laxman Prasad Poudyal & Bhagawan Raj Dahal. With increasing studies and with an extensive coverage of non-invasive camera trap surveys, the presence of Dhole has been recorded in different parts of Nepal. It has been reported from Kanchanjungha conservation area in the eastern Himalaya (Khatiwada et al 2012), Chitwan and Parsa national parks in central Terai (Thapa et al 2013), Barandabhar Corridor Forest, Chitwan (Lamichhane et al 2018), and Api-Nampa conservation area in the western Himalaya Local people indicate or park records show their presence in Rara and Khaptad national parks, and Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve in the western Himalaya of Nepal
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