Two wild dog babies join Alipore Zoo family
The pups are being fondled by the keepers who are feeding them milk and chicken
Two dhole (also called Asiatic wild dog) puppies, born at Alipore Zoo on December 22 last year, were displayed for the first time on Saturday.
The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is an average sized canine found throughout the forest tracts of India.
Two pairs of dholes were brought to the zoo from Visakhapatnam in 2019. One of the females gave birth to a litter of four puppies. But two of the puppies did not survive. The remaining two, a male and a female, were weak and shifted to the zoo hospital.