December 28, 201312 yr Last week I went camping at Chanadai Cliff which is in a remote part of Pha Taem National Park along the Mekong River in Ubon. Unfortunately, there were 700 scouts camping the first night I arrived. Ugh. Day 2 they left and we were one of only 2 groups up there. Unbelievably clear and quiet up there. Anyway, at about 1am we heard some very high pitched howling. It was beautiful. Made me feel like I was in the Rocky Mountains again. I couldn't get my iPhone recording app going to catch it in time. I counted no less than 4 animals at once. I've heard coyotes and dogs howl and this sounded nothing like either. The DNP web site in Thai says there are foxes around and listening to some fox sounds online they do make a similar noise to what I heard. I know the dhole and golden jackal are in Thailand but I can't find anything that would suggest they are in this area. Of the two I think the dhole would be more likely since it sounded like a pack. Anyway, anyone have any ideas?
December 29, 201312 yr I've always believed there are neither foxes or wolves indigenous to Thailand. There are dingoes and feral dogs In the temple near my house, the pack of street dogs (mainly of the ridgeback type) howl like crazy every morning when they ring the bell to summon the locals to give alms. Maybe you heard similar.
December 29, 201312 yr I spent a few years working as a wild life Technician. I have heard fox ( in California USA) make a horrifying screaming sound at night. Like the scream of a mountain lion, you wouldn't believe the animal it came from if you did not see it make the sound. I don't believe fox live or work in packs I don't know if there are fox in Thailand..
December 29, 201312 yr maybe Australian BUNIPS, could quite easily be escapees from a zoo and started breeding, only ever recorded in the Murray Darling basin here in Aus, make the most terrifying sound you could wish to hear, as kids we were terrified to go near the rivers and creeks without adults around.
December 29, 201312 yr I don't know if there are fox in Thailand.. I think there are I past one just the other day sorry but I couldn't resist. I spent a few years working as a wild life Technician. I have heard fox ( in California USA) make a horrifying screaming sound at night. Like the scream of a mountain lion, you wouldn't believe the animal it came from if you did not see it make the sound. I don't believe fox live or work in packs I don't know if there are fox in Thailand..
December 29, 201312 yr Author There are fox in Pha Taem according to the National Park web site. Edwin Wiek of http://www.wfft.org/ thinks it could be a pack of dhole. There was some good research done on their presence in Thailand a while back. The results are here. The presence map doesn't show anything East of Korat but they didn't do any research East of there. The Wikipedia entry says they don't howl though. Everyone with us that heard it didn't think it was dogs but maybe it was. If so it was the highest pitch dog howl I've ever heard.
December 30, 201312 yr About 15 years ago the local village temple had a couple of foxes which were kept in a small cage. One male, one female. Scruffy looking creatures, sort of dull yellow in colour, not red coated like the European fox. The female died, and the surviving male was cooped up, pacing around the cage, no doubt going mad with boredom. Eventually he too succumbed. I have never seen a fox in the wild.
December 30, 201312 yr About 4 years ago we saw what we thought was a fox north of Chiang Mai. The main reason for thinking so was the nimble almost bouncing gait which is so typical of foxes, but I have never seen it in dogs. The animal was about the size of the red foxes we have in Canada and had the same body shape. But we could not confirm it because it was only visible a short time. My dad and I used to have a trap line and I have seen a lot of foxes, It was the first and only time I thought a saw a fox (animal, not lady) in Thailand in ten years.
December 30, 201312 yr I did some searching and found this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhole It looks just like the animal I described in my previous post and the color is exactly the same too. In this link, it is said another name for them is the whistling dog. http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/dhole
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