Predators would always be predators and would defend its territory over food and mate. In India, three hunters live in harmony and follow the rule 'live and let live'.
Surprisingly, tigers, leopards, and dholes (wild dogs) coexist while contending for the same food and habitat. The three species roam the Western Ghat region of India and a research suggested that the animals lived with little encounters based on the mounted camera traps.
It looks like that the hunters have learned to adjust life in the significant Western Ghats region's small reserve. They hunt at intervals, from different times to different areas, as suggested by researchers, according to a Live Science report.
The lead author and director for Science in Asia at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Ullas Karanth stated that conservationists can absorb from the predator's modified methods. He said, that all three predators, the leopards, dholes, and tigers perform a 'delicate dance' in the protected sanctuary and all achieved to live.
"We were surprised to see how each species has remarkably different adaptations to prey on different prey sizes, use different habitat types and be active at different times," he added.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature or IUCN, listed dholes and tigers as endangered species. These animals are getting jeopardized for extinction in the wild. Leopards, on the other hand, are listed as 'vulnerable' meaning that this member of the feline family is highly compromised in the wild.
The Wild Life has learned that the research was published in in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. More than a dozen camera traps aid the study which took shots of thousand pictures. It was discovered that the three hunters live together despite preying on the same animals such as spotted deer, wild pigs, and large sambar deer.
The predators manage to avoid each other to prevent a fight over food. Since dholes are not nocturnal animals, it has lesser encounters with tigers and leopards. Even if all animals encounter each other in some parts of the region where food is more limited, the 'after you' gesture still prevails.
