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  Dhole - Information at Halfvalue.com
The dhole's current range extends from the borders of Russia and the Altai Mountains in Manchuria (Central and Eastern Asia) to Northern and Western Pakistan to the forest tracts of India, Burma, and the Malayan Archipelago.
The dhole is about the size of a collie, and is similar to the dingo and golden jackal.
After meals (during which a couple of dholes act as look-outs, wary for leopards and tigers who could kill them or steal their kill, and humans also), they race to a water site, and sometimes, if the water is near their kill, dholes will leave their food for a small drink of water.
www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Dhole   (3546 words)

  
  Dhole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dhole's current range extends from the borders of Russia and the Altai Mountains in Manchuria (Central and Eastern Asia) to Northern and Western pakistan to the forest tracts of India, Burma, and the Malayan Archipelago.
Dhole young open their eyes at 2 weeks, begin to become more independent at 6 weeks, leave the den area at around 10 weeks, and join in with the rest of the pack to hunt at 7 months.
The gender ratio of dhole pups at birth is unknown.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dhole   (2012 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Kaa
Kaa the python is a fictional animal character in the Mowgli stories of Rudyard Kipling.
First introduced in the story "Kaa's Hunting" in The Jungle Book, Kaa is a huge and powerful snake, more than a hundred years old and still in his prime.
In "Red Dog" Mowgli asks Kaa for help when his wolf pack is threatened by rampaging dhole (the red dogs of the title).
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/k/ka/kaa.html   (761 words)

  
 Dhole
The Dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a mammal of the Canidae family.
Dholes are mostly found in south Asia, ranging further north into central Asia to the borders of Russia, east to Malaysia and south to Sumatra and Java.
The dhole is a social canid and is generally seen hunting in packs.
www.askfactmaster.com /Dhole   (92 words)

  
 Dhole (fictional) recreational vehicles Dhole (fictional)
Dholes are said to be gigantic worm-like burrowing horrors, in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
They are not native to the Earth, and none seem to have brought here for more than brief periods, fortunately, for they seem to have riddled and left waste several other worlds.
Similar are the massive Bholes of the Dreamlands, possibly the ancestors of the Dholes:
www.find-ask.com /D/Encyclopedia/Dhole_(fictional)/Dhole_(fictional).html   (360 words)

  
 Mowgli
Mowgli is a fictional character who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh", which was collected in Many Inventions (1893).
Mowgli runs back to the jungle but soon learns that the villagers are planning to kill his adoptive mother and father, so he rescues them and sends elephants and buffalo to trample the village to the ground.
Finally, Mowgli stumbles across the village where his human mother is now living, which forces him to come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Mowgli.html   (983 words)

  
 Mowgli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mowgli is a fictional character who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894-1895), which also featured non-Mowgli stories.
The Mowgli stories including In the Rukh were first collected in chronological order in one volume as The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book (1907) (Volume VIII of this series contained the non-Mowgli stories from the Jungle Books), and subsequently in All the Mowgli Stories (1933).
Mowgli runs back to the jungle but soon learns that the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband, so he rescues them and sends elephants and buffalo to trample the village to the ground.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Mowgli   (1283 words)

  
 Dhole
Of course in most parts of Asia, wolf and dhole packs do not live together and therefore the encounter was purely fictional.
Dhole packs are feared by many inhabitants of the jungle, including spotted and sambar deer, which they prey upon.
After a while another dhole, a one year old female who was the elder daughter of the present mother.
www.thewildones.org /Animals/dhole.html   (435 words)

  
 Dhole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
They are the only species in the genus Cuon, Dholes are mostly found in forest habitats in south Asia, but also range north into central Asia to the borders of Russia, east to Malaysia and south to Sumatra and India and Java.
Dholes can urinate while doing a handstand on their forepaws, and can jump at least 2.3 metres.
With the finals on Sunday, July 9, the city will be gripped with soccer fever, as France and Italy battle each other for the golden trophy in Berlin.
www.paleorama.com /Mammals-D/Dhole.php   (368 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Dhole (fictional)
They are not native to the Earth, and none seem to have brought here for more than brief periods, fortunately, for they seem to have riddled and left waste several other worlds.
Dholes are known only by dim rumour from the rustling they make amongst mountains of bones and the slimy touch they have when they wriggle past one.
Some unknown relation between Dholes and Chthonians may exist.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Dhole_(fictional)   (384 words)

  
 The last of deadly dogs? - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Of course, in India, wolf and dhole packs seldom live together and therefore the encounter was purely fictional.
Dholes were once killed as vermin in India; bounties were paid for carcasses, even eight annas per tail, right until 1972.
Once dholes operate in an area all the ungulates leave the place, thus preventing over-grazing and subsequent damage to the ecosystem.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/nov62005/finearts1417352005115.asp   (933 words)

  
 dhole - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about dhole
With head and body up to 1 m/39 in long, variable in colour but often reddish above and lighter below, the dhole lives in groups of from 3 to 30 individuals.
Dholes can chase prey for long distances; a pack is capable of pulling down deer and cattle as well as smaller prey.
They are even known to have attacked tigers and leopards.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /dhole   (157 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Akela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
During this period Akela helps Mowgli to kill Shere Khan with the aid of the human village's buffalo herd.
Some years later, when Mowgli has been rejected by humanity and the pack is threatened with extinction by a rampaging pack of dhole Akela joins the battle and fights to the death, finally dying in Mowgli's company ("Red Dog", in The Second Jungle Book).
Akela's death is a major factor in Mowgli's decision to finally return to human society at the age of 17.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Akela   (444 words)

  
 Allen Varney: Cthulhu Lives!
Most of Lovecraft's horror fiction, and especially the Cthulhu Mythos stories, trouble the reader with one central idea: that Earth used to belong to another race that got driven away, but lurks in the darkness, waiting to take back the world.
HPL often began his tale in a mundane, carefully described backwater town and then gradually boiled the reader's brain with bizarre happenings, hideous alien things, and a growing sense that the universe doesn't care about us.
It remains one of the most successful small presses in the country, and its three huge volumes of Lovecraft's fiction -- now in corrected critical editions -- are still the mainstay of its line.
www.allenvarney.com /av_cthulhu.html   (3110 words)

  
 ooBdoo
In all of their range, tigers are the top predators and do not compete with other carnivores other than the dhole or Indian wild dog, which makes up for its relative lack of strength by numbers.
Rajah, a pet of the character Jasmine of Disney's animated feature film Aladdin, is uncharacteristically dog-like in its behavior, but even more oddly Tony the Tiger is renowned for his Frosted Flakes and may be the only cat, real or fictional, who thrives on a vegetarian diet.
A stylized tiger cub was a mascot of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games of Seoul with the name "Hodori", and the tiger is one of the most chosen animals to be a mascot for sports teams, e.g.
www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Tiger   (4040 words)

  
 FictionPress.Com Story : Fröhlichkeit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The six classes are Coyote, Dhole, Fox, Wolf, Jackal, and Dog.
She and the young Fox class man across from her were the only ones not transforming that day.
The elegant Doisa Canela was a coyote and transformed on every eighth day opposed to the Wolf’s twelfth, the Fox’s tenth, the Dhole’s sixth, the Jackal’s fourth, and the Dog’s second.
www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=1659875   (4556 words)

  
 Kaa - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
the python is a fictional animal character in the Mowgli stories of Rudyard_Kipling.
In one of the most striking scenes in the series, Kaa goes into a trance so that he can search his century-long memory for a stratagem to defeat the dogs: “The dhole do not turn and their throats are hot,” said Kaa.
Now we will go to the river, and I will show thee what is to be done against the dhole.” With Kaa's help Mowgli tricks the dhole into attacking prematurely.
www.indexsuche.com /Kaa.html   (811 words)

  
 debitage: part of the core tool and scraper tradition
Respondents were asked to agree or disagree with statements from each program (such as, "Rene Laennec used a rolled-up newspaper as the first stethoscope" [ER], and "The Wanshang Dhole, an Asian dog thought to be extinct, has pre-evolutionary features including a fifth toe pad, a dew claw, and a prehensile thumb" [The X-Files].
My first finding, that ER viewers learned specific ER science content, is an indicator that entertainment television viewers can learn facts and concepts from their favorite television programs.
This finding does not seem surprising in light of Gallup and Harris polls demonstrating high levels of paranormal belief in the United States, but the beliefs assessed in the study were fictional paranormal and pseudoscientific beliefs created by the writers of The X-Files.
www.brunchma.com /~acsumama/blog/archive/2004_07_18_oldblog.html   (1020 words)

  
 Satanic Reds
This was fiction in the making, copyright stuff that we planned to pass onto Lin Carter for either his Necronomicon, or something else.
It was Cthulhu Mythos fiction mixed with actual Esoteric Doctrines told using mythos words and names in an effort to systemitized the Cthulhu Mythos.
Dee as mentioned in C. Mar. 7, A.S.; it seems the Dholes are not especially pleased with his stupid action of the previous issue as well as the church being unhappy with one who misguided our own people.
www.geocities.com /satanicreds/1972aquinomythos.html   (9677 words)

  
 Lacrimas - WikiFur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
She has been to Texas Fur Con and most recently Furry Weekend Atlanta.
Her fursona is a Dhole, often drawn with blue or purple hair.
Her fursona is more a furry version of her than a fictional character, and tends to change with her appearence.
furry.wikia.com /wiki/Lacrimas   (123 words)

  
 dhole - OneLook Dictionary Search
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "dhole" is defined.
dhole : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
Dhole : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?w=dhole   (164 words)

  
 image mowgli pngMowgli by John Lockwood Kipling father of Rudyard Kipling...
Mowgli runs back to the jungle but soon learns that the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband, so he rescues them and sends elephants elephants and buffalo to trample the village to the ground.
In later stories he finds and then discards an ancient treasure, not realising that men will kill to own it; and with the aid of Kaa Kaa the python python he leads the wolves in a war against the dhole dhole (red dogs).
All of the film and comic book adaptaions depict Mowgli wearing a loincloth loincloth or other one-piece garment one-piece garment, but in the original stories, except while living in the village, he is naked naked.
www.biodatabase.de /Mowgli   (1228 words)

  
 Dog - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The Indian or Asian wolf probably led to the development of more breeds of dogs than other subspecies.
Many of today's wilddogs, such as the dingo, the dhole and pariah dogs, are descended from this wolf, along with sighthounds such as the Greyhound.
Recent genetic evidence shows that most modern dog breedsare related to Asian canines, contradicting earlier hypotheses that the dog, like humans, had evolved originally in Africa.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Dog   (6152 words)

  
 The X-Files Timeline -- 1999
They see Padgett just sitting before his typewriter, but in Padgett's perception he is visited by his fictional character, the hooded man, who demands to know his motivation, which Padgett admits he can't figure out.
The man speaks with an hispanic accent, probably because he is based on the South American psychic surgeon.
She first tipped Mulder to the case, but she has little to say, other than that canines often use elaborate trickery to catch prey.
www.themareks.com /xf/1999.shtml   (18210 words)

  
 EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Call of Cthulhu
But they can take a dozen cuts and scrapes without getting nailed, and the fort saves are beginning to get respectable enough such that you're more lucky than not with those 10-point hits.
For a game that's based largely on the fictional work of a single author, people seem to have radically different ideas on how it should be run.
I think a lot of the lethality reputation comes from the old days, when the game was still strongly supported and people tended to run published scenarios.
www.enworld.org /printthread.php?t=78236   (4107 words)

  
 Tiger - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In all of their range, tigers are the top predators and they do not fear from any other carnivores other than the dhole or Indian wild dog, which makes up for strength in numbers.
They generally do not prey on large mammals such as elephants, and rhinos, although they will prey on weak young whenever they have an opportunity.
Rajah, a pet of the characters Aladdin and Jasmine of Disney's animated feature film Aladdin, is uncharacteristically dog-like in its behavior, but even more oddly Tony the Tiger is renowned for his Frosted Flakes and may be the only cat, real or fictional, who thrives on a vegetarian diet.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Tiger   (3690 words)

  
 aynathie - User Info
Enough that I feel compelled to state here that I don't actually mean anything by using this name.
And enough to feel a strong urge to apologise to a fictional character for presuming to use a name that belongs to her only.
If changing username on LJ was easier, I would probably do it.
aynathie.livejournal.com /profile   (356 words)

  
 Tip-Top-Hot Dogs - Dogs Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The Indian Wolf is thought to have contributed to the development of more breeds of dogs than other subspecies.
Many of today's wild dogs, such as the dingo, the dhole and pariah dogs, are descended from this wolf.
The Indian wolf is also thought to have bred with descendants of the European wolf to create the Mastiffs and eventually leading to the development of such diverse breeds as the Pug, the Saint Bernard, and the Bloodhound.
www.dogs.tiptophot.com /modules.php?name=Dogs-MM&page=Dog.html   (5514 words)

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