Nepal, Jan. 18 -- Here is a species of endangered wild dogs whose population has diminished to a level that it could get extinct anytime soon. But you may be reading about it for the first time.

Dogs may be humans' best friends but their Asiatic wild counterparts have not been as lucky. The adverse situation created by human activities has pushed them near extinction. Today only about 2215 breeding population of Dholes, the Asiatic wild dogs, remain.

Dholes, which signifies recklessness and daring in ancient Asiatic term, have been the greatest survivors and been lurking around the planet for 12,000 years. But now they have become a threatened species. Yet we seldom hear anyone talking about them. Why? Because most of us are so transfix...