The Pack is Back

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Wild dogs | K.Gudi | BR hills

26-04-11

I have been following this pack ever since I came to K.Gudi in 2009. And it’s such a beautiful sight to see them multiplying in leaps and bounds. Now they are 16 in number with 4 sub adults in it. This pack of wild dogs went  missing this entire winter season. What I presume is that they laid their pups in a different region of this reserve. We haven’t seen them until February when they all came back to this area. And so do today, again after a long gap of a month they were sighted here on the main road of K.Gudi.

One of the best moments of this sighting was when one of the pups came towards me. He was so close at one time that I was unable to focus through my lens. They kept on moving in front until a car came and the people sitting inside, came out on the road to see. I told them to move back in their vehicle and by that time the wild dogs vanished into the bushes  :(

I was happy to see them all together and I hope that we see them quite often here.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 at 8:24 pm. It is filed under Wild Encounters and tagged with , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

8 Responses to “The Pack is Back”

  1. Mayank says:
    April 26, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    hey ashish, great checking our your website – loved checking out the posts andphotographs including the latest wild dogs sightings. i love the photo viewer embedded in the blog. is this something you did yourself – would love to know how to use it.

    meanwhile, pleasure meeting you and hope to stay in touch. happy sightings till then. do keep sharing photographs.

  2. Vinay says:
    April 27, 2011 at 9:52 am

    Nice Write up Ashish. Nice to see that the group has grown over the year.

  3. sharmila says:
    April 27, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Ashish, are they hyenas? or lakkadbhagga as we used to call them.. pls tell me.. i see all ur pics and read all ur blogs.. and it seems so interesting to me.. bt my knowledge abt wildlife is pathetic..

  4. Nita Mukherjee says:
    April 27, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    Congratulations Ashish, for a great report and photos! Glad the pack is back, and hope there will be regular sightings! Look forward to hearing about them and seeing more photos! God bless, Aunty.

  5. ashish says:
    April 28, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    No sharmila. Hyenas are different. These are called wild dogs who hunt in packs. I have also seen a single wild dog hunting. Unlike other dogs, this one does’t bark. They whistle. If u are more interested to know about them I will send you one movie CD about them.

  6. Kenny and Jeanette says:
    April 30, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    Hey Ashish!

    Loved to see the pics of the wild dogs, it reminded us of our fantastic stay at K Gudi last March when we had the opportunity to see this pack as well. We really enjoyed our stay and we liked to have finally met the man behind this blog :-) K Gudi is indeed a hidden gem but we hope that more Europeans will find the way to this lovely place.

  7. Bhavana Rao says:
    June 7, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    Hi Ashish,
    Great blog! Keep up the good work. We’d be visiting K. Gudi sometime soon :) Hope to see the pack there and maybe the other carnivores as well.

  8. Jinx says:
    June 25, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    Dhol aren’t they…the whistling killers….really nice track…they are benchmark of Animal Behavior studies…

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