Do Dholes have any predators?

Question

I'm doing a report on dholes and I need to know what a dhole's predators are

Answer 1

If you define a predator as an animal that kills and eats another animal as a part of its routine diet than the dhole has no predators. Tigers have been known to kill a dhole or two but then quickly retreat as they gather reinforcements and do not linger to consume the dhole. If a dhole dies for whatever reason a bear will eat it but that is scavenging, not predation. They are too large for venomous snakes to eat so they would kill one out of fear and then flee the area. I imagine only a very large python would actually act as a true predator of the dhole but with only about 4,000 dholes in the wild it is unlikely a large python would ever even see a dhole, and dholes are very quick with keen senses. Babies may be vulnerable to very large hawks or eagles if unguarded, or possibly jackals.

Answer 2

What Is A Dhole

Answer 3

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They don't really have any predators, but tigers and leopards will kill them to reduce the competition for food (they do not kill them in order to eat them, hence this is not predation). However, dholes live in large packs and have been known to drive leopards and even tigers from their kills. Sadly, humans also kill dholes.

Answer 4

They have a parasitic predator called Sarcocystis axicuonis they acquire from the chital they eat. Parasites harm individuals, they lessen their hosts fitness making them vulnerable to disease and other stressors. Coccidia and Helminths share the trait for two host apadtations. Coccidia are single celled organisms that infect the intestine.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=554990
'Role of parasites and commensals in shaping host behaviour"
tejas.serc.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/oct102005/1184.pdf
"Among the three obligate carnivores, the social dholes have the lowest prevalence of parasites. " The other two carnivores were tigers and leopards.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-8424(19950912)92%3A19%3C8945%3APAADIM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccidia