Dhole ( Cuon alpinus) is a wild carnivorous animal and is a member of the family Canidae and the class Mammalia.

The paper added that вЂњthere had been no confirmed reports (of dholes) in more than 30 years from the Russian Federation, Mongolia, Kazakhstan (formerly in the Altai and Tian Shan mountains), Kyrgyzstan (formerly in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountains), Afghanistan (formerly in Pamir Mountains), Tajikistan (formerly in Pamir Mountains), or Uzbekistan (formerly in Tian Shan Mountains).вЂќ.

This, they said, suggested вЂњsufficient prey abundance existed to support a diverse carnivore community, including the exclusively carnivorous dhole.вЂќ.

The researchers also noted that their non-invasive surveys had detected snow leopards, Eurasian lynx, brown bears and red foxes.

It is believed that this is a new record of the purportedly extirpated dhole in the Chon-Alai district and marks a northward extension of its previously published distribution by approximately 1,000 km.

The authors wrote in New distribution record of dhole from southern Kyrgyzstan using non-invasive genetic sampling, published in Canid Biology and Distribution:.

The animals have been discovered in the Bek-Tosot Conservancy in the Osh region of southern Kyrgyzstan, a few kilometres from the Tajik border.

A new study has reported the presence of dholes or Asiatic wild dogs (Cuon alpinus) in the high mountains of Central Asia nearly 30 years after their presence was last recorded.