Editing Dhole (section)

===Feeding ecology===
Prey animals in India include [[chital]], [[sambar deer]], [[muntjac]], [[mouse deer]], [[barasingha]], [[wild boar]], [[gaur]], [[water buffalo]]es, [[banteng]], [[cattle]], [[nilgai]], [[goat]]s, [[Indian hare]]s, [[Himalayan field rat]]s and [[langur]]s.<ref name="cohen1978"/><ref name=Pocock1941/><ref name="f58">{{Harvnb|Fox|1984|pp=58–60}}</ref> There is one record of a pack bringing down an [[Indian elephant]] calf in [[Assam]], despite desperate defense of the mother, resulting in numerous losses to the pack.<ref name="perry1965"/> In Kashmir, they prey on [[markhor]],<ref name=Pocock1941/> and [[thamin]] in Myanmar,<ref name="cohen1978"/> [[Malayan tapir]], [[Sumatran serow]] in [[Sumatra]] and the [[Malay Peninsula]] and [[Javan rusa]] in Java.<ref name=Durbin2004/> In the [[Tian Shan]] and [[Tarbagatai Mountains]], dholes prey on [[Siberian ibex]]es, [[arkhar]], [[roe deer]], [[Caspian red deer]] and [[wild boar]]. In the [[Altai Mountains|Altai]] and [[Sayan Mountains]], they prey on [[musk deer]] and [[reindeer]]. In eastern Siberia, they prey on roe deer, [[Manchurian wapiti]], wild pig, musk deer and reindeer, while in [[Primorye]] they feed on [[sika deer]] and [[goral]]. In Mongolia, they prey on [[argali]] and rarely Siberian ibex.<ref name="heptner1998"/>

[[File:2012-bandipur-dhole-chital.jpg|thumb|Dholes feeding on a [[chital]], Bandipur National Park]]
[[File:Dhole feeding Khao Yai NP.jpg|thumb|Dhole feeding on [[sambar deer]] carcass, [[Khao Yai National Park]]]]

Like African wild dogs, but unlike wolves, dholes are not known to actively hunt people.<ref name="heptner1998"/><ref name=Pocock1941/> They are known to eat [[insect]]s and [[lizard]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chacon |first=Raquel |title=Cuon alpinus (dhole) |url=https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Cuon_alpinus/ |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=Animal Diversity Web |language=en |archive-date=27 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127081104/https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/cuon_alpinus/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Dholes eat [[fruit]] and [[vegetable]] matter more readily than other canids. In captivity, they eat various kinds of grasses, herbs and leaves, seemingly for pleasure rather than just when ill.<ref name="mivart1890">{{cite book |last=Mivart |first=George |title=Dogs, Jackals, Wolves and Foxes: A Monograph of the Canidæ |publisher=R.H. Porter |year=1890 |location=London |pages=177–188 |chapter=Genus ''Cyon'', Hodgson (1838) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/dogsjackalswolve00mivauoft#page/n307/mode/2up}}</ref> In summertime in the Tian Shan Mountains, dholes eat large quantities of mountain [[rhubarb]].<ref name="heptner1998"/> Although opportunistic, dholes have a seeming aversion to hunting cattle and their calves.<ref name="f71">{{Harvnb|Fox|1984|p=71}}</ref> [[Livestock]] predation by dholes has been a problem in Bhutan since the late 1990s, as domestic animals are often left outside to graze in the forest, sometimes for weeks at a time. Livestock stall-fed at night and grazed near homes are never attacked. [[Oxen]] are killed more often than [[cow]]s, probably because they are given less protection.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Johnsingh |first1=A.J.T. |last2=Yonten |first2=D. |last3=Wangchuck |first3=S. |year=2007 |title=Livestock-Dhole Conflict in Western Bhutan |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48380954 |journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |volume=104 |issue=2 |pages=201–202 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>