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Lone African wild dog joins up with black-backed jackals in Botswana
From Wilderness Safaris: Wild dogs have a distinct social hierarchy, relying on group cooperation to survive. They are also highly social animals used to operating in packs consisting of several...
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African wild dog feeds black-backed jackal puppies
The lone wild dog of Mombo in Botswana feeds some black-backed jackal puppies. Wild dogs and jackals feed their pups through regurgitating what they’ve eaten. Under normal conditions, these jackal...
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Black-backed jackal attacks lion
These photos were taken at the Ongava Game Reserve in Namibia. A black-backed jackal jumps a male lion. The lion sits on the jackal. It is hard to tell if these two are playing or fighting. The lion...
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White jackal pup
This is white black-backed jackal pup from the Gauteng Province of South Africa. (Source for image) It looks very much like a tyrosine-positive albinoid Dobermann.
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Jackal is a meaningless term
A side-striped jackal (Canis adustus), the jackal no one talks about. We’ve always called the smaller wild dogs in the genus Canis jackals. Historically, there were four species of jackal: the golden...
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Black-backed jackals prey on Cape fur seals
Black-backed jackals are hunters as well as scavengers. On Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, they hunt Cape fur seal pups: Source.
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Ken Ham misrepresents canid taxonomy
Ken Ham is known for using the dog family to defend the biblical concept of kind. After all, domestic dogs vary so much but can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, which they can also do with...
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What’s killing bat-eared and Cape foxes in South Africa?
Part I: Source. Part II: Source A general rule in canids is that bigger canids kill and persecute smaller ones. In this case, black-backed jackals are killing off Cape foxes. That would not be such a...
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The story of a hybrid
The scent of canid estrus wafts out of the clouds of the Harenna Forest in Ethiopia’s Bale National Park. It floats out of the wet jungle into the land of lichens that lies way up high in the Sanetti...
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Trained black-backed jackal
I might sound weird, but if I ever go to Africa, this is the first species I want to see:
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Dire wolf genome reveals closer evolutionary relationship with African jackals
It was always assumed that the dire wolf and its kin, the endemic extinct North American wolves, were very closely related to modern wolves. However, the genome of the dire wolf was just sequenced by...
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The Lupullela of Africa
As we have examined the genomes of various dog species, one problem has become evident: The genus Canis is paraphyletic. Two endemic African jackals, the side-striped and black-backed jackal, are...
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New species of black-backed jackal indicated through mitochondrial DNA analysis
Cape jackal (L) and East African black-backed jackal (R) The molecular revolution in biology has caused a great deal of turmoil in the taxonomy of Canids. Long-time readers know that full-genome...
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Corrections: arctic foxes are born in brown or bluish black summer pelts and arctic wolves are born gray. These are of the Cape species or subspecies (depending upon how you accept the most recent...
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Parallel evolution is a hell of a thing
Not the best photo, but this is golden wolf on the left and a black-backed jackal on the right. I screen-captured this image from this documentary, which was made before the big golden jackal revision...
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