Abstract
In India, the Tibetan Wolf Canis lupus chanko is distributed in the Trans-Himalaya region. We report the sighting of Tibetan Wolf from the Bedini-Ali area that falls in the Greater Himalayan range and is located in the transition zone of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in Uttarakhand, India. We hypothesise that the Tibetan wolf inhabiting the Trans-Himalayan areas of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve would have moved south-west around the alpine regions of Nanda Devi National Park towards Bedini-Ali, following migratory livestock herds that graze in these areas during summer.
Highlights
We report sighting Tibetan Wolf at Bedini-Ali (79040’N & 30012’E) located in the transition zone (Image 1) of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (BR) while conducting field research on wildlife-habitat interactions at BediniAli during 2005 and 2006 (Bhattacharya et al 2006, 2009)
The absence of records of Tibetan Wolf during earlier scientific surveys, and lack of past reports from local herders and villagers in Bedini-Ali does not necessarily imply that the wolf did not occur in this area in the historical past
Wolf scat on Caragana scrub recorded from MalariLaptal areas in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, September 2006 the wolf may not have been detected in the past
Summary
We report sighting Tibetan Wolf at Bedini-Ali (79040’N & 30012’E) located in the transition zone (Image 1) of Nanda Devi BR while conducting field research on wildlife-habitat interactions at BediniAli during 2005 and 2006 (Bhattacharya et al 2006, 2009). The Bedini-Ali area, located in the western region of Nanda Devi BR, falls within the Greater Himalayan region and encompasses upper temperate, subalpine and alpine habitats ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 m and a diversity of slopes and aspects due to the mountainous topography.
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