Original range and subspecies ³

The Dhole or Asiatic wild dog (Cuon alpinus) used to occur over much of central and western Europe in the interglacials. Fossils of late Pleistocene age have been found in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, on the Riviera and in the Caucasus. Dholes may have survived in Iberia until the early Holocene. Dholes are currently extinct in the region and occur in 0% of their former range in the W Palearctic.

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1. (c) en:User:Kalyanvarma (?), some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuon.alpinus-cut.jpg
2. (c) Stan van Remmerden, all rights reserved, uploaded by Stan van Remmerden
3. Adapted by Stan van Remmerden from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuon_alpinus

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