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Definition of Dhole

Dhole
Dhole Dhole, n. (Zo["o]l.) A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.

Meaning of Dhole from wikipedia

- The dhole (/doʊl/ dohl; Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to South, East and Southeast Asia. It is anatomically distinguished from members of the genus...
- The Sardinian dhole (genus Cynotherium especially C. sardous) is an extinct insular canid which was endemic to what is now the Mediterranean islands of...
- The Ussuri dhole (Cuon alpinus alpinus), also known as the Eastern Asiatic dhole and the Chinese dhole, is the nominate subspecies of the dhole wild dog...
- Shan dhole (Cuon alpinus hesperius), also known as the Siberian dhole, Western Asiatic dhole, or northern dhole is an extinct subspecies of dhole native...
- The European dhole (Cuon alpinus europaeus) was a paleosubspecies of the dhole, which ranged throughout much of Western and Central Europe during the...
- related and possibly ancestral to modern dhole and the African wild dog,: p149  as well as the insular Sardinian dhole. Xenocyon is proposed as a subgenus...
- larger than themselves: the African wild dog (142), the gray wolf (136), the dhole (112), and the dingo (108). The bite force at the carn****ials showed a similar...
- previously been used by the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson for the dhole. In 1876, zoologist Joel Asaph Allen discovered the remains of Canis mississippiensis...
- The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined...
- Nomenclature. Paleontologist George G. Simpson placed the African wild dog, the dhole and the bush dog together in the subfamily Simocyoninae on the basis of...