By springtime, and into early summer, this hair is largely shed to reveal a coarser and leaner coat for the warmer months.

[citation needed] The Ussuri dhole lives in forests, plains, grasslands, savannahs, steppes and alpine tundra.

[citation needed] Within areas where their ranges overlap with other canids, dholes are also vulnerable to shared diseases and potentially aggressive (or deadly) confrontations with feral dogs, wolves and golden jackals.

Ussuri dholes may also be targeted or threatened by fellow apex predators such as tigers, leopards, striped hyena, sloth bears, sun bears and, less frequently, by Asiatic lions (in India’s Gir Forest, Gujarat) and cheetahs (in Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh).

[5][6][7] Large herbivores, including Asian elephants, Indian rhinoceros, gaur and banteng are also a potential danger, due to their massive sizes, quick tempers and natural disdain for any predatory animal, despite the fact that their young may be preyed upon by dholes occasionally.