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Where would a pack of BULLY KUTTA be ranked on the predator hieracy in India
Topic Started: Jan 18 2013, 10:06 AM (16,802 Views)
Kurtz
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ImperialDino
Jan 28 2013, 08:48 PM
Many of you are missing the point of this post. We all know Bully Kutta's don't have "wild intelligence" to be able to avoid danger etc...I was asking based on PHYSICAL PROWESS, where would a pack of 8 Bully Kutta's be on the food chain.

We know that they probably aren't smart enough to have 2-3 Bully Kutta's watch the pups while the others go off to "hunt" (scavenge), but that wasn't the bases of my question.
Altough something is in favor of dogs, altough 100 pounds they need lot of lesser food than wolves at parity.
Dogs of 100 pounds can survive with 400 g. of meat per day, while similar weight wolf need mor than 3,5 kilograms per day
Edited by Kurtz, Jan 28 2013, 10:51 PM.
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ImperialDino
Jan 28 2013, 08:48 PM
Many of you are missing the point of this post. We all know Bully Kutta's don't have "wild intelligence" to be able to avoid danger etc...I was asking based on PHYSICAL PROWESS, where would a pack of 8 Bully Kutta's be on the food chain.

We know that they probably aren't smart enough to have 2-3 Bully Kutta's watch the pups while the others go off to "hunt" (scavenge), but that wasn't the bases of my question.
In terms of physical strength and capability, only the big cats, crocodiles, sloth bears and hyenas could best them, they'd kill every other carnivorian in a fight.
Edited by Full Throttle, Jan 29 2013, 05:21 AM.
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India only has striped hyenas, I'd back a bully kutta over one of them. Dholes and jackals would know to keep away from them, and although a leopard would most likely flee from a bully kutta, If it came to blows the dog would be killed. Also, they would have to give sloth bears a wide berth.
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ATC, they'd probably be scavengers, probably stealing kills as a pack from anything as formidable as a leopard or less. While they are certainly poweful enough to bring down deer, they may well have problems catching them due to their size causing them to overheat.

They'd definitely be prey for crocodiles, and my suspicion is that bears would chace them from carcasses now and again, though I can't remember if they ever eat carrion. A pack of eight could probably coerce a tiger from a kill, but it would be a high risk proposition. That being said, a large pack of dholes could turn the tables on them, and if one of the dogs was alone, a leopard would take it as prey. However formidable it is face to face, the cat could kill it from ambush. A tiger would probably take on a group of up to three without much fear.

Indian wolves are small, so I think the dogs could handle them, and striped hyenas are loners, so they'd not be able to stand up to the pack either.

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Jan 29 2013, 09:30 AM
ATC, they'd probably be scavengers, probably stealing kills as a pack from anything as formidable as a leopard or less. While they are certainly poweful enough to bring down deer, they may well have problems catching them due to their size causing them to overheat.

They'd definitely be prey for crocodiles, and my suspicion is that bears would chace them from carcasses now and again, though I can't remember if they ever eat carrion. A pack of eight could probably coerce a tiger from a kill, but it would be a high risk proposition. That being said, a large pack of dholes could turn the tables on them, and if one of the dogs was alone, a leopard would take it as prey. However formidable it is face to face, the cat could kill it from ambush. A tiger would probably take on a group of up to three without much fear.

Indian wolves are small, so I think the dogs could handle them, and striped hyenas are loners, so they'd not be able to stand up to the pack either.

"and if one of the dogs was alone, a leopard would take it as prey."

I agree with much of what you said and only partially agree with the quote above. The Leopard is dominated by Striped Hyenas at kills, and the Bully Kutta are every bit as formidable if not more formidable then a Striped Hyena. It all depends on how the Leopard views the Bully Kutta. I do believe that a male Bully Kutta could REPEAL a Male Leopard attack, although if the Leopard is determined the Bully Kutta would be bloodied and hurt. A half-hearted attack would be repealed even by a female. Female Leoaprds can't take male or female Bully Kuttas.

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yes a female leopard can easy if she is pressed and wants to


she will just wrap around its neck
Edited by Ophiophagy, Feb 2 2013, 02:29 AM.
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Feb 2 2013, 02:28 AM
yes a female leopard can easy if she is pressed and wants to


she will just wrap around its neck
Female Leopard has a small head and isn't physically strong enough to be able to take the Bully Kutta as prey.
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Face to face, a Bully Kutta could probably chase off most leopards, for the leopard the risk wouldn't be worth it unless it was very hungry, or guarding cubs or something. But leopards hunt from ambush, and seem to like the taste of dog, if the dog was attacked with the usual "attack in such a way that the prey item can barely react" then the dog would be killed. Leopard hunting tactics are designed to completely negate the prey animal's ability to do damage to it.
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ImperialDino
Feb 15 2013, 06:09 AM
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yes a female leopard can easy if she is pressed and wants to


she will just wrap around its neck
Female Leopard has a small head and isn't physically strong enough to be able to take the Bully Kutta as prey.
A female leopard would make mince meat of that skinny legged mutt, even a pair of dholes would beat the crap out of it.
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Feb 16 2013, 07:00 AM
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Feb 15 2013, 06:09 AM
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Feb 2 2013, 02:28 AM
yes a female leopard can easy if she is pressed and wants to


she will just wrap around its neck
Female Leopard has a small head and isn't physically strong enough to be able to take the Bully Kutta as prey.
A female leopard would make mince meat of that skinny legged mutt, even a pair of dholes would beat the crap out of it.
Once again, "skinny legged", then I guess that "skinny legged" Coyote must be more muscular than a Eurasian Lynx because it hackzorzzz
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Feb 16 2013, 07:00 AM
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Feb 15 2013, 06:09 AM
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Feb 2 2013, 02:28 AM
yes a female leopard can easy if she is pressed and wants to


she will just wrap around its neck
Female Leopard has a small head and isn't physically strong enough to be able to take the Bully Kutta as prey.
A female leopard would make mince meat of that skinny legged mutt, even a pair of dholes would beat the crap out of it.
Striped Hyenas have "skinny legs" as well, and dominate Leopards.I don't think a female leopard could kill an AFRICAN WILD DOG that easily. There is a big difference between a male leopard and a female leopard, and even the male leopard is a coward, but physically they are different.
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I think a good trained german shepherd would take on these bullykutta everyday.
bullykuttas seem very poor dogs
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if you want good dogs you're welcome in europe or north america
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Just throwing this out there: Since the dogs don't have really sharpened survival instincts I'm willing to bet that they'll endup suffering a lot of losses to venomous snake bites.
A while ago someone posted an account where a single black mamba ended up killing an entire pack of dogs [I don't remember how large, at least 4 though, and I don't remember if they were feral or not]. The snake ended up dying from injuries later, but the dogs didn't know well enough to avoid this species and all of them died of envenomation.

I'd also bet that a large dog like this would be a very tempting target for a mugger crocodile.
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