Wild dogs chasing food stealer crows

Wild Dogs are busy enjoying their lunch but they have uninvited guests - crows. The crows play games and come from all directions to steal the food. Dogs chase them in one direction and they come munching on their lunch from the other direction.

The Dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a species of canid native to Southeast Asia. The dhole is highly social animal, living in large clans which occasionally split up into small packs to hunt. Dhole is found in Assam, Bengal, Gujrat, Kashmir, Tamil nadu, and North western parts of India. Dhole usually prefers dense forests, thick shrub forests and mountain regions to live. They keep in packs, hunt in packs and have a very well organized social life. Their larger packs may occasionally even take on large carnivores like the tiger or leopard and force them to leave the site.

Kanha National park is located in Banjar and Halon valleys in the Mandla / Balaghat districts of the state of Madhya Pradesh. Kanha National Park is one of the India's finest tiger reserves. It is spread more than 940 sq km in a horse shoe shaped valley bound by the spurs of the Mekal range the park presents a varies topography.

Kanha national park is more famous for its wildlife, the natural beauty of its landscape is just as fascinating. Kanha also shelters one of the largest populations of the tigers in the country. Some of the other larger animal species found in the park are sloth bear, leopard, striped hyena, spotted dear, wild boar, jungle cat, jackal and a variety of monkeys. Over 200 spices of birds have been spotted in the park.

There are many folklore about how it got kanha name. Some say it came from kanha, the clay like soil of the river bottoms, Other say the area is named for kanha a holy forest sage, who once lived here and was the father of shakuntala, whose son was Bharat and whose story was told in our legends.

Courtesy: Wikipedia & http://www.kanha-national-park.com/

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