Dhole, the Glossary
The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South, East and Southeast Asia.[1]
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338 relations: African wild dog, African wolf, Allee effect, Alpha (The X-Files), Alpine ibex, Alpine tundra, Altai Mountains, Altyn-Tagh, Animal latrine, Arctic fox, Argali, Arunachal Pradesh, Asia, Asian black bear, Asiatic cheetah, Assam, Austroasiatic languages, Bangladesh, Banteng, Barasingha, Basal (phylogenetics), Bengal tiger, Bharhut, Bhutan, Binomial nomenclature, Björn Kurtén, Black-backed jackal, Body language, Borneo, Brian Houghton Hodgson, British Raj, Buryatia, Bush dog, Cambodia, Camera trap, Canidae, Canina (subtribe), Caninae, Canine distemper, Canine parvovirus, Canine reproduction, Canis, Caspian red deer, Cattle, Caucasus, Central Asia, Cestoda, Charles Hamilton Smith, Chennai, Chevrotain, ... Expand index (288 more) »
- Canina (subtribe)
- Carnivorans of Asia
- Extant Middle Pleistocene first appearances
- Mammals described in 1811
- Mammals of South Asia
- Species endangered by habitat fragmentation
African wild dog
The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the painted dog or Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa. Dhole and African wild dog are canina (subtribe) and species endangered by habitat fragmentation.
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African wolf
The African wolf (see below for other names; Canis lupaster) is a canine native to North Africa, West Africa, the Sahel, northern East Africa, and the Horn of Africa.
Allee effect
The Allee effect is a phenomenon in biology characterized by a correlation between population size or density and the mean individual fitness (often measured as per capita population growth rate) of a population or species.
Alpha (The X-Files)
"Alpha" is the sixteenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files.
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Alpine ibex
The Alpine ibex (Capra ibex), also known as the steinbock, is a European species of goat that lives in the Alps.
Alpine tundra
Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate.
Altai Mountains
The Altai Mountains, also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia and Eastern Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters.
Altyn-Tagh
Altyn-Tagh (also Lower Mountains or Altyn) is a mountain range in Northwestern China that separates the Eastern Tarim Basin from the Tibetan Plateau. The western third is in Xinjiang while the eastern part forms the border between Qinghai to the south and Xinjiang and Gansu to the north. Altun Shan is also the name of a mountain near the eastern end of the range, the highest point in Gansu.
Animal latrine
Animal latrines (latrine areas, animal toilets, defecation sites) are places where wildlife animals habitually defecate and urinate.
Arctic fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.
Argali
The argali (Ovis ammon), also known as the mountain sheep, is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia, the Himalayas, Tibet, and the Altai Mountains.
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Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Asian black bear
The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the Indian black bear, Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle.
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Asiatic cheetah
The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) is a critically endangered cheetah subspecies currently only surviving in Iran. Dhole and Asiatic cheetah are species endangered by habitat fragmentation.
Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
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Austroasiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Banteng
The banteng (Bos javanicus), also known as tembadau, is a species of wild bovine found in Southeast Asia.
Barasingha
The barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), sometimes barasinghe, also known as the swamp deer, is a deer species distributed in the Indian subcontinent.
Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Bengal tiger
The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies.
Bharhut
Bharhut is a village located in the Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, central India.
Bhutan
Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.
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Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Björn Kurtén
Björn Olof Lennartson Kurtén (19 November 1924 – 28 December 1988) was a Finnish vertebrate paleontologist, belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority of his country.
Black-backed jackal
The black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas), also called the silver-backed jackal, is a medium-sized canine native to eastern and southern Africa.
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Body language
Body language is a type of communication in which physical behaviors, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information.
Borneo
Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.
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Brian Houghton Hodgson
Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1800 or more likely 1801 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
Buryatia
Buryatia (Buryatiya; Buryaad Ulas), officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East.
Bush dog
The bush dog (Speothos venaticus) is a canine found in Central and South America.
Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Camera trap
A camera trap is a camera that is automatically triggered by motion in its vicinity, like the presence of an animal or a human being.
Canidae
Canidae (from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade.
Canina (subtribe)
Canina is a taxonomic rank which represents the wolf-like subtribe of the tribe Canini, and is sister to the subtribe Cerdocyonina.
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Caninae
Caninae (whos members are known as canines) is the only living subfamily within Canidae, alongside the extinct Borophaginae and Hesperocyoninae.
Canine distemper
Canine distemper virus (CDV) (sometimes termed "footpad disease") is a viral disease that affects a wide variety of mammal families, including domestic and wild species of dogs, coyotes, foxes, pandas, wolves, ferrets, skunks, raccoons, and felines, as well as pinnipeds, some primates, and a variety of other species.
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Canine parvovirus
Canine parvovirus (also referred to as CPV, CPV2, or parvo) is a contagious virus mainly affecting dogs and wolves.
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Canine reproduction
Canine reproduction is the process of sexual reproduction in domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes and other canine species.
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Canis
Canis is a genus of the Caninae which includes multiple extant species, such as wolves, dogs, coyotes, and golden jackals. Dhole and Canis are canina (subtribe).
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Caspian red deer
The Caspian red deer (Cervus elaphus maral), is one of the easternmost subspecies of red deer that is native to areas between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea such as Crimea, Asia Minor, the Caucasus Mountains region bordering Europe and Asia, and along the Caspian Sea region in Iran.
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Cattle
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.
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Caucasus
The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
Cestoda
Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes).
Charles Hamilton Smith
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith, KH, KW, FRS, FLS, (26 December 1776 in East Flanders, in the United Provinces of the Netherlands – 21 September 1859 in Plymouth) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Chevrotain
Chevrotains, or mouse-deer, are diminutive, even-toed ungulates that make up the family Tragulidae, and are the only living members of the infraorder Tragulina.
Chibanian
The Chibanian, more widely known as Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chital
The chital or cheetal (Axis axis), also known as the spotted deer, chital deer and axis deer, is a deer species native to the Indian subcontinent.
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Chittagong Hill Tracts
The Chittagong (Chadigang) Hill Tracts (Parbotto Chottogram), often shortened to simply the Hill Tracts and abbreviated to CHT, are a group of districts within the Chittagong Division in southeastern Bangladesh, bordering India and Myanmar (Burma) in the east.
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Chitwan National Park
Chitwan National Park is the first national park of Nepal.
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Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
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Clouded leopard
The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), also called mainland clouded leopard, is a wild cat inhabiting dense forests from the foothills of the Himalayas through Northeast India and Bhutan to mainland Southeast Asia into South China.
Coast
A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
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Coimbatore
Coimbatore (Tamil: kōyamputtūr), sometimes shortened as Kovai, is one of the major metropolitan cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Colobinae
The Colobinae or leaf-eating monkeys are a subfamily of the Old World monkey family that includes 61 species in 11 genera, including the black-and-white colobus, the large-nosed proboscis monkey, and the gray langurs.
Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
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Coping (architecture)
Coping (from cope, Latin capa) is the capping or covering of a wall.
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Coyote
The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America. Dhole and coyote are extant Middle Pleistocene first appearances.
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Cusp (anatomy)
A cusp is a pointed, projecting, or elevated feature.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Dajia River
Dajia River is the fifth-longest river in Taiwan located in the north-central of the island.
Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary
The Debrigarh wildlife sanctuary is located in the Bargarh district in the Indian state of Odisha, covering a total area of 346.91 km2.
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Deccan Plateau
The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River.
Dingo
The dingo (either included in the species Canis familiaris, or considered one of the following independent taxa: Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo) is an ancient (basal) lineage of dog found in Australia.
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Disembowelment
Disembowelment, disemboweling, evisceration, eviscerating or gutting is the removal of organs from the gastrointestinal tract (bowels or viscera), usually through an incision made across the abdominal area.
Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.
Dog
The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.
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Dominance hierarchy
In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.
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Dusicyon
Dusicyon is an extinct genus of South American canids.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Eastern Ghats
The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains along India's eastern coast.
Eld's deer
Eld's deer (Rucervus eldii or Panolia eldiiPitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves (2004). Evolution and phylogeny of old world deer. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 880–895.), also known as the thamin or brow-antlered deer, is an endangered species of deer endemic to South and Southeast Asia. Dhole and Eld's deer are mammals of South Asia.
Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Estrogen
Estrogen (oestrogen; see spelling differences) is a category of sex hormone responsible for the development and regulation of the female reproductive system and secondary sex characteristics.
Ethiopian wolf
The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis), also called the red jackal, the Simien jackal or Simien fox, is a canine native to the Ethiopian Highlands.
Etymology
Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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European dhole
The European dhole (Cuon alpinus europaeus) was a paleosubspecies of the dhole, which ranged throughout much of Western and Central Europe during the Middle and Late Pleistocene.
Far Cry 4
Far Cry 4 is a 2014 first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
Far Cry Primal
Far Cry Primal is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
Feces
Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
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Fur clothing
Fur clothing is clothing made from the preserved skins of mammals.
Fur trade
The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.
Game (hunting)
Game or quarry is any wild animal hunted for animal products (primarily meat), for recreation ("sporting"), or for trophies.
Ganges
The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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Gansu
Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.
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Gastrointestinal tract
The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
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Gaur
The gaur (Bos gaurus) is a bovine native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, and has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1986.
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Genetic admixture
Genetic admixture occurs when previously isolated populations interbreed resulting in a population that is descended from multiple sources.
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Genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist.
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Georgia (country)
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
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Glacial period
A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.
Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
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Golden jackal
The golden jackal (Canis aureus), also called the common jackal, is a wolf-like canid that is native to Eurasia. Dhole and golden jackal are carnivorans of Asia, mammals of South Asia and Pleistocene mammals of Asia.
Goral
The gorals are four species in the genus Naemorhedus.
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Guard hair
Guard hair or overhair is the outer layer of hair of most mammals, which overlay the fur.
Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.
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Hainan
Hainan is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration.
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Hathi
Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895).
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Heart
The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals.
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Himalayan field rat
The Himalayan field rat (Rattus nitidus), sometimes known as the white-footed Indo-Chinese rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Himalayan wolf
The Himalayan wolf (Canis lupus chanco) is a canine of debated taxonomy. Dhole and Himalayan wolf are carnivorans of Asia.
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Honey badger
The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel, is a mammal widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Dhole and honey badger are mammals of South Asia.
Honshu
, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.
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Hormone
A hormone (from the Greek participle ὁρμῶν, "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs or tissues by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior.
Howling
Howling is a vocal form of animal communication seen in most canines, particularly wolves, coyotes, foxes, and dogs, as well as cats and some species of monkeys.
Hundsheim
Hundsheim is a town in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria, in northeast Austria.
Hyena
Hyenas or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek ὕαινα) are feliform carnivoran mammals belonging to the family Hyaenidae.
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Ibbi-Sin
Ibbi-Sin (𒀭𒄿𒉈𒀭𒂗𒍪), son of Shu-Sin, was king of Sumer and Akkad and last king of the Ur III dynasty, and reigned c. 2028–2004 BCE (Middle chronology) or possibly c. 1964–1940 BCE (Short chronology).
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian elephant
The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three extant recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, native to mainland Asia.
Indian hare
The Indian hare (Lepus nigricollis), also known as the black-naped hare, is a common species of hare native to the Indian subcontinent, and Java. Dhole and Indian hare are mammals of South Asia.
Indian wolf
The Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) is a subspecies of gray wolf that ranges from Southwest Asia to the Indian subcontinent. Dhole and Indian wolf are mammals of South Asia.
Indira Gandhi Zoological Park
Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is located amidst Kambalakonda Reserve Forest in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Indo-Gangetic Plain
The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the North Indian River Plain, is a fertile plain encompassing northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of modern-day northern and eastern India, most of eastern-Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.
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Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast (Irkutskaya oblastʹ; Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Japanese nationalism
is a form of nationalism that asserts the belief that the Japanese are a monolithic nation with a single immutable culture, and promotes the cultural unity of the Japanese.
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Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
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Javan rusa
The Javan rusa or Sunda sambar (Rusa timorensis) is a large deer species native to Indonesia and East Timor.
Jiangxi
Jiangxi is an inland province in the east of the People's Republic of China.
Jigme Dorji National Park
The Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP), named after the late Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, is the second-largest National Park of Bhutan.
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Journal of Animal Ecology
The Journal of Animal Ecology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in all areas of animal ecology.
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Journal of Archaeological Science
The Journal of Archaeological Science is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers "the development and application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology".
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Juliet Clutton-Brock
Juliet Clutton-Brock, FSA, FZS (6 September 1933 – 21 September 2015) was an English zooarchaeologist and curator, specialising in domesticated mammals.
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Kaa
Kaa is a fictional character from The Jungle Book stories written by Rudyard Kipling.
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Kabardino-Balkaria
Kabardino-Balkaria (Кабарди́но-Балка́рия), officially the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus.
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Kabardino-Balkarian State University
Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU); Кабардино-Балкарский государственный университет имени Х. Kabardino_Balkarskii gosudarstvennii universitet imeni H. M. Berbekova, often abbreviated КБГУ, KBSU) is a coeducational and public research university located in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.
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Kali
Kali (काली), also called Kalika, is a major Hindu goddess associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death in Shaktism.
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Kanchenjunga Conservation Area
Kanchenjunga Conservation Area is a protected area in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal that was established in 1997.
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Karadeniz Technical University
Karadeniz Technical University (Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi or KTÜ) is a public research university in Trabzon, in the Black Sea Region of Turkey.
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Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Kayin State
Kayin State (ကရင်ပြည်နယ်,; italics; ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်), formerly known as Karen State, is a state of Myanmar.
Kazakhstani tenge
The tenge (or; translit,; translit; sign: ₸; code: KZT) is the currency of Kazakhstan.
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Kerinci Seblat National Park
Kerinci Seblat National Park is the largest national park on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary
The Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary (เขตรักษาพันธุ์สัตว์ป่าเขาอ่างฤๅไน) is a protected area at the western extremities of the Cardamom Mountains in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand.
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Kleptoparasitism
Kleptoparasitism (originally spelt clepto-parasitism, meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another.
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Kuruba
Kuruba is a Hindu caste native to the Indian state of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.
Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
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Ladakh
Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.
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Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal (Ozero Baykal; Baigal dalai) is a large rift lake in Russia.
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
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Late Pleistocene
The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.
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Lena (river)
The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East, and is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey). The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia, with a length of and a drainage basin of.
Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.
Leopold von Schrenck
Peter Leopold von Schrenck (Леопольд Иванович фон Шренк; 1826 – 8 January 1894) was a Russian zoologist, geographer and ethnographer.
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Liver
The liver is a major metabolic organ exclusively found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the synthesis of proteins and various other biochemicals necessary for digestion and growth.
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Livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
Lizard
Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.
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Lung
The lungs are the central organs of the respiratory system in humans and some other animals, including tetrapods, some snails and a small number of fish.
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Luobi Cave
Luobi Cave is a karst cave under the west face of Yin Ridge (印岭) located north east of Lizhigou Town (荔枝沟镇), from Sanya City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China.
Lycaon (genus)
Lycaon is a genus of canid which includes the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) and the extinct species Lycaon sekowei and Lycaon magnus.
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula is located in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Malayan tapir
The Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called Asian tapir, Asiatic tapir, oriental tapir, Indian tapir, piebald tapir, or black-and-white tapir, is the only living tapir species outside of the Americas. Dhole and Malayan tapir are endangered fauna of Asia.
Manchuria
Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.
Manchurian wapiti
The Manchurian wapiti (Cervus canadensis xanthopygus) is a subspecies of the wapiti native to East Asia.
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Mange
Mange is a type of skin disease caused by parasitic mites.
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Markhor
The markhor (Capra falconeri) is a large wild ''Capra'' (goat) species native to South Asia and Central Asia, mainly within Pakistan, India, the Karakoram range, parts of Afghanistan, and the Himalayas.
Masseter muscle
In anatomy, the masseter is one of the muscles of mastication.
Mating
In biology, mating is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for the purposes of sexual reproduction.
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Meghalaya
Meghalaya (or, "the abode of clouds") is a state in northeast India.
Melanism
Melanism is the congenital excess of melanin in an organism resulting in dark pigment.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.
Microsatellite
A microsatellite is a tract of repetitive DNA in which certain DNA motifs (ranging in length from one to six or more base pairs) are repeated, typically 5–50 times.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Molar (tooth)
The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.
Mosbach
Mosbach (South Franconian: Mossbach) is a town in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Moscow Zoo
The Moscow Zoo or Moskovsky Zoopark (Московский зоопарк) is a zoo, the largest in Russia.
Mowgli
Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories.
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Muntjac
Muntjacs, also known as the barking deer or rib-faced deer, (URL is Google Books) are small deer of the genus Muntiacus native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Musk deer
Musk deer can refer to any one, or all seven, of the species that make up Moschus, the only extant genus of the family Moschidae.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Nam Et-Phou Louey National Park
Nam Et-Phou Louey National Park is a protected area in northern Laos, covering in three provinces: Houaphan, Luang Prabang, and Xieng Khouang.
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National Museum of Natural History, Bulgaria
The National Museum of Natural History (Национален природонаучен музей, Natsionalen prirodonauchen muzey), or NMNHS, is a natural history museum in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
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Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
Nilgai
The nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) (literally meaning "blue cow") is the largest antelope of Asia, and is ubiquitous across the northern Indian subcontinent. Dhole and nilgai are taxa named by Peter Simon Pallas.
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Nine sons of the dragon
The nine sons of the dragon are Chinese dragons who are the mythological sons of the Dragon King.
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Ninh Thuận province
Ninh Thuận, previously named Phan Rang province, is a coastal province in the southernmost part of the South Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam.
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Nivkh people
The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an Indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the lower Amur River and coast on the adjacent Russian mainland.
Non-player character
A non-player character (NPC), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.
Outer Manchuria
Outer Manchuria, "For these services Moscow exacted a staggering territorial price: a broad swath of territory in so-called Outer Manchuria along the Pacific coast, including the port city now called Vladivostok.¹⁴ In a stroke, Russia had gained a major new naval base, a foothold in the Sea of Japan, and 350,000 square miles of territory once considered Chinese.""New Russian leaders may or may not look to the West rather than Beijing, and might be so weak that the Russian Federation’s fragmentation, especially east of the Urals, isn’t inconceivable.
Ox
An ox (oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal.
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Pack (canine)
A pack is a social group of conspecific canines.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Palawan
Palawan, officially the Province of Palawan (Probinsya i'ang Palawan; Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa.
Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Pù Mát National Park
Pù Mát National Park (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Pù Mát) is a national park in Nghệ An Province, in Vietnam's North Central Coast region.
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Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
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Plain
In geography, a plain, commonly known as flatland, is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Porcupine
Porcupines are large rodents with coats of sharp spines, or quills, that protect them against predation.
Pregnancy (mammals)
In mammals, pregnancy is the period of reproduction during which a female carries one or more live offspring from implantation in the uterus through gestation.
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Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai (lit), informally known as Primorye (Приморье), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East.
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Progenitor
In genealogy, the progenitor (rarer: primogenitor; Stammvater or Ahnherr) is the – sometimes legendary – founder of a family, line of descent, clan or tribe, noble house, or ethnic group.
Progesterone
Progesterone (P4) is an endogenous steroid and progestogen sex hormone involved in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and embryogenesis of humans and other species.
Project Tiger
Project Tiger is a wildlife conservation movement initiated in India to protect the endangered tiger.
Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Qilian Mountains
The Qilian Mountains (also romanized as Tsilien; Mongghul: Chileb), together with the Altyn-Tagh (Altun Shan) also known as Nan Shan (literally "Southern Mountains"), as it is to the south of Hexi Corridor, is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains, forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of northern China.
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Qinghai
Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.
Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals.
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Ramgarh district
Ramgarh district is one of the 24 districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
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Red Dog (Kipling short story)
"Red Dog" is a Mowgli story by Rudyard Kipling.
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Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa. Dhole and red fox are carnivorans of Asia and extant Middle Pleistocene first appearances.
Reginald Innes Pocock
Reginald Innes Pocock, (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist.
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Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
Rhubarb
Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks (petioles) of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food.
Richard Lydekker
Richard Lydekker (25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.
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Rize
Rize (Ριζούντα; რიზინი; რიზე; Ռիզե) is a coastal city in the eastern part of the Black Sea Region of Turkey.
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Roe deer
The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer.
Rostrum (anatomy)
Rostrum (from Latin rostrum, meaning beak) is a term used in anatomy for a number of phylogenetically unrelated structures in different groups of animals.
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Ruble
The ruble or rouble (p) is the currency unit of Belarus and Russia.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.
Rumen
The rumen, also known as a paunch, is the largest stomach compartment in ruminants and the larger part of the reticulorumen, which is the first chamber in the alimentary canal of ruminant animals.
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Rupee
Rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, Burma, German East Africa (as Rupie/Rupien), and Tibet.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Russian Far East
The Russian Far East (p) is a region in North Asia.
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Russian ruble
The ruble or rouble (rublʹ; symbol: ₽; abbreviation: руб or р. in Cyrillic, Rub in Latin; ISO code: RUB) is the currency of the Russian Federation.
Sagittal crest
A sagittal crest is a ridge of bone running lengthwise along the midline of the top of the skull (at the sagittal suture) of many mammalian and reptilian skulls, among others.
Sambar deer
The sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, South China and Southeast Asia that is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2008. Dhole and sambar deer are mammals of South Asia.
Sardinian dhole
The Sardinian dhole (genus Cynotherium especially C. sardous) is an extinct insular canid which was endemic to what is now the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia and Corsica during the Middle-Late Pleistocene. Dhole and Sardinian dhole are canina (subtribe).
Satpura Tiger Reserve
Satpura Tiger Reserve (STR) also known as Satpura National Park is located in the Narmadapuram district of Madhya Pradesh in India.
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Sayan Mountains
The Sayan Mountains (Саяны Sajany; Соёны нуруу, Soyonï nurû; Kögmen) are a mountain range in southern Siberia spanning southeastern Russia (Buryatia, Irkutsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tuva and Khakassia) and northern Mongolia.
Scavenger
Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.
Seasonal breeder
Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.
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Seoni, Madhya Pradesh
Seoni is a city and a municipality in Seoni district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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Serow
The serow, is any of four species of medium-sized goat-like or antelope-like mammals in the genus Capricornis.
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China.
Shere Khan
Shere Khan (Hindi- शेर खान/ English pronunciation) is a fictional Bengal tiger in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and its adaptations, in which he is often portrayed as the main antagonist, itself an exaggeration of his role in the original stories, which he only appears in a third of.
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Siberian ibex
The Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica), also known using regionalized names including Altai ibex, Asian ibex, Central Asian ibex, Gobi ibex, Himalayan ibex, Mongolian ibex or Tian Shan ibex, is a polytypic species of ibex, a wild relative of goats and sheep.
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
Side-striped jackal
The side-striped jackal (Lupulella adusta) is a canine native to central and southern Africa.
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Sika deer
The sika deer (Cervus nippon), also known as the Northern spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia and introduced to other parts of the world.
Skull
The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain.
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Sloth bear
The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), also known as the Indian bear, is a myrmecophagous bear species native to the Indian subcontinent.
Snow leopard
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), occasionally called ounce, is a species of large cat in the genus Panthera of the family Felidae. Dhole and snow leopard are mammals of South Asia.
South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
South China
South China is a geographical and cultural region that covers the southernmost part of China.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Speothos
Speothos is a genus of canid found in Central and South America.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Stomach
The stomach is a muscular, hollow organ in the upper gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates.
Striped hyena
The striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is a species of hyena native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Dhole and striped hyena are carnivorans of Asia and extant Middle Pleistocene first appearances.
Stupa
In Buddhism, a stupa (lit) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as śarīra – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.
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Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.
Sumatran serow
The Sumatran serow (Capricornis sumatraensis sumatraensis), also known as the southern serow, is a subspecies of the mainland serow native to mountain forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Surrogacy
Surrogacy is an arrangement, often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman agrees to childbirth on behalf of another person(s) who will become the child's parent(s) after birth.
Sylhet
Sylhet (Bengali: সিলেট), is a metropolitan city located in the northeastern region of Bangladesh.
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Taichung County
Taichung County was a county in central Taiwan between 1945 and 2010.
Taiga
Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.
Tarbagatai Mountains
The Tarbagatai Mountains are a mountain range straddling the China–Kazakhstan border, located in northwestern Xinjiang, China, and the Abai Region of East Kazakhstan.
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Taxkorgan Nature Reserve
The Taxkorgan Nature Reserve (officially spelled Taxkorgan Natural Reserve) is a nature reserve in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
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Terai
The Terai or Tarai is to a lowland region in parts of northern India and southern Nepal that lies to the south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
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Territory (animal)
In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal consistently defends against conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression.
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Testosterone
Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and androgen in males.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.
Thomas Hardwicke
Major-General Thomas Hardwicke (1756 – 3 March 1835) was an English soldier and naturalist who was in India from 1777 to 1823.
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Tian Shan
The Tian Shan, also known as the Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too, meaning the "Mountains of God/Heaven", is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia.
Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
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Tien Shan dhole
The Tian Shan dhole (Cuon alpinus hesperius), also known as the Siberian dhole, Western Asiatic dhole,Fox, M. W. (1984), The Whistling Hunters: Field Studies of the Indian Wild Dog (Cuon Alpinus), Steven Simpson Books, p. 40, or northern dhole is a subspecies of dhole native to the Altai and Tian Shan mountain ranges, and possibly Pamir and Kashmir. Dhole and Tien Shan dhole are carnivorans of Asia.
Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.
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Tochigi Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu.
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Tofalariya
Tofalariya (Тофалария) is a small cultural and historical region in Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation.
Toxocara canis
Toxocara canis (T. canis, also known as dog roundworm) is a worldwide-distributed helminth parasite that primarily infects dogs and other canids, but can also infect other animals including humans.
Trabzon
Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province.
Transbaikal
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia (p), or Dauria (Даурия, Dauriya) is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia.
Trapping
Animal trapping, or simply trapping or ginning, is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal.
Treeing
Treeing is a method of hunting where dogs are used to force animals that naturally climb up into trees, where they can be assessed or shot by hunters.
Trypanosomiasis
Trypanosomiasis or trypanosomosis is the name of several diseases in vertebrates caused by parasitic protozoan trypanosomes of the genus Trypanosoma.
Tungusic peoples
Tungusic peoples are an ethnolinguistic group formed by the speakers of Tungusic languages (or Manchu–Tungus languages).
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Tunkinsky National Park
The Tunka or Tunkinsky National Park (Russian: Тункинский) is a national park located in south central Siberia.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
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Ungulate
Ungulates are members of the diverse clade Euungulata ("true ungulates"), which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves.
Urial
The urial (Ovis vignei), also known as arkars, shapo, or shapu, is a wild sheep native to Central and South Asia.
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Urination
Urination is the release of urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.
Urine
Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals.
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Ussuri dhole
The Ussuri dholeHeptner, V. G. & Naumov, N. P. (1998).
Ussuriysk
Ussuriysk (Уссури́йск) is a city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, in the valley of the Razdolnaya River.
Valdarno
The Valdarno is the valley of the river Arno.
Vansda National Park
Vansda National Park, also known as Bansda National Park, is a protected area which represents the thick woodlands of the Dangs and southern Gujarat, and is situated in the Vansda tehsil, Navsari District of Gujarat state, India.
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Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.
Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Villafranchian
Villafranchian age is a period of geologic time (3.5–1.0 Ma) spanning the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages.
Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam (formerly known as Vizagapatam), also known as Vizag, Viśākha or Waltair, is the largest and most populous metropolitan city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment.
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Water buffalo
The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), also called the domestic water buffalo or Asian water buffalo, is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Dhole and water buffalo are mammals of South Asia.
Weaning
Weaning is the process of gradually introducing an infant human or another mammal to what will be its adult diet while withdrawing the supply of its mother's milk.
West Bengal
West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.
Western Ghats
The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, is a mountain range that stretches along the western coast of the Indian peninsula.
Whole genome sequencing
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is the process of determining the entirety, or nearly the entirety, of the DNA sequence of an organism's genome at a single time.
See Dhole and Whole genome sequencing
Wild boar
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania.
Wild Dog Diaries
Wild Dog Diaries is a wildlife film portraying the behaviour of wild dogs (Cuon alpinus).
See Dhole and Wild Dog Diaries
Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972
The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted for protection of plants and animal species.
See Dhole and Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972
Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. Dhole and wolf are extant Middle Pleistocene first appearances.
See Dhole and Wolf
Xenocyon
Xenocyon ("strange dog") is an extinct group of canids, either considered a distinct genus or a subgenus of Canis.
Xinjiang
Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.
Yangtze
Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.
Year
A year is the time taken for astronomical objects to complete one orbit.
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Yenisey
The Yenisey (Енисе́й) is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean.
Yok Đôn National Park
Yok Don National Park (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Yok Đôn) is a national park located in Krông Na commune, Buôn Đôn District, Đắk Lắk Province, Tây Nguyên of Vietnam, 40 km west of Buôn Ma Thuột city.
See Dhole and Yok Đôn National Park
Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
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Zabaykalsky Krai
Zabaykalsky Krai (Transbaikal territory) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the Russian Far East.
See Dhole and Zabaykalsky Krai
Zhetysu
Zhetysu (Jetısu,; meaning "seven rivers" or more literally, "seven waters") or Jeti-Suu (Жети-Суу|Jeti-Suu), also transcribed Zhetisu, Jetisuw, Jetysu, Jeti-su or Jity-su,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Джетысу etc.
See also
Canina (subtribe)
- African wild dog
- African wild dogs
- Canina (subtribe)
- Canis
- Dhole
- Dire wolf
- Eucyon
- Lupulella
- Sardinian dhole
Carnivorans of Asia
- Arabian wolf
- Asiatic black bears
- Banded palm civet
- Binturong
- Dhole
- East Siberian brown bear
- Eurasian brown bear
- Eurasian otter
- Eurasian wolf
- Ezo red fox
- Fennec fox
- Gobi bear
- Golden jackal
- Hill fox
- Himalayan black bear
- Himalayan brown bear
- Himalayan wolf
- Japanese otter
- Kamchatka brown bear
- Large-spotted civet
- Least weasel
- Marbled polecat
- Otter civet
- Owston's palm civet
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Red fox
- Ruddy mongoose
- Sea otter
- Silver fox (animal)
- Small Indian civet
- Smooth-coated otter
- Spotted linsang
- Stoat
- Striped hyena
- Sulawesi palm civet
- Syrian brown bear
- Tibetan blue bear
- Tien Shan dhole
- Ussuri brown bear
- Weasel
Extant Middle Pleistocene first appearances
- African buffalo
- Anatomically modern humans
- Bighorn sheep
- Borysthenia
- Brown bear
- Cougar
- Coyote
- Dhole
- European badger
- Jaguar
- Koala
- New World flying squirrel
- North American porcupine
- Red fox
- Striped hyena
- Virginia opossum
- Wolf
Mammals described in 1811
- Azara's night monkey
- Black titi monkey
- Black-capped marmot
- Cape grysbok
- Dhole
- European mouflon
- Güldenstädt's shrew
- Gmelin's white-toothed shrew
- Lesser white-toothed shrew
- Maned sloth
- Mountain weasel
- Northern pika
- Pyrenean desman
- Red-backed bearded saki
- Red-tailed squirrel
- Spotted seal
- Steenbok
- Three-striped night monkey
- Ural field mouse
Mammals of South Asia
- Asian house shrew
- Asian palm civet
- Bengal fox
- Choerolophodon
- Dhole
- Eld's deer
- Fishing cat
- Golden jackal
- Honey badger
- Indian crested porcupine
- Indian hare
- Indian long-eared hedgehog
- Indian wolf
- Indo-Pacific finless porpoise
- Irrawaddy dolphin
- Jafarabadi buffalo
- Jungle cat
- Lion
- List of mammals of Afghanistan
- List of mammals of Bangladesh
- List of mammals of Bhutan
- List of mammals of India
- List of mammals of Nepal
- List of mammals of Pakistan
- List of mammals of Sri Lanka
- List of mammals of the Maldives
- Mammals of Afghanistan
- Mammals of India
- Mammals of Nepal
- Mammals of Sri Lanka
- Sambar deer
- Small Indian civet
- Smooth-coated otter
- Snow leopard
- South Asian river dolphin
- Southern red muntjac
- Water buffalo
- Yak
Species endangered by habitat fragmentation
- African bush elephant
- African forest elephant
- African wild dog
- African wild dogs
- Agile gibbon
- Aipysurus fuscus
- Alabama waterdog
- Andean mountain cat
- Angonoka tortoise
- Apodemia mormo langei
- Asian elephant
- Asiatic cheetah
- Bernhard's mantella
- Bog turtle
- Dhole
- Flat-tailed day gecko
- Florida panther
- Golden mantella
- Gray-shanked douc
- Ground pangolin
- Isilo (elephant)
- Loach minnow
- Lost River sucker
- Ocelot
- Renanthera caloptera
- San Bernardino kangaroo rat
- Streptocephalus woottoni
- ʻAkiapolaʻau
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhole
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