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  2. Jackal - Wikipedia

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    The most lightly built jackal, once considered to be the oldest living member of the genus Canis, [13] it is now placed in the genus Lupulella. It is the most aggressive of the jackals, being known to attack animal prey many times its own weight, and it has more quarrelsome intrapack relationships. [14]

  3. European jackal - Wikipedia

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    They readily eat lizards, snakes, frogs, fish, molluscs and insects. During the winter period, they will kill many nutrias and waterfowl. During such times, jackals will surplus kill and cache what they do not eat. Jackals will feed on fruits, such as pears, hawthorn, dogwood and the cones of common medlars. [4]

  4. Black-backed jackal - Wikipedia

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    Black-backed jackals occasionally hunt domestic animals, including dogs, cats, pigs, goats, sheep, and poultry, with sheep tending to predominate. They rarely target cattle, though cows giving birth may be attacked. Jackals can be a serious problem for sheep farmers, particularly during the lambing season.

  5. Diospyros mespiliformis - Wikipedia

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    The female tree bears fruit in the dry season and these are eaten by many wild animals; they are oval-shaped, yellow or purple when ripe [3] and about 20–30 mm in diameter. The fruit remain embedded in the persistent calyx lobes. [ 3 ]

  6. Golden jackal - Wikipedia

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    Within the wolf-like canids is the jackal group, which includes the three jackals: the black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomela), the side-striped jackal (Lupulella adusta), and the golden jackal (Canis aureus). These three species are approximately the same size, possess similar dental and skeletal morphology, and are identified from each other ...

  7. Canis - Wikipedia

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    The jackal-sized Eucyon existed in North America from 10 million YBP and by the Early Pliocene about 6-5 million YBP the coyote-like Eucyon davisi [13] invaded Eurasia. The canids that had emigrated from North America to Eurasia – Eucyon , Vulpes , and Nyctereutes – were small to medium-sized predators during the Late Miocene and Early ...

  8. New species of canine discovered - AOL

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    For the first time in 150 years, a new species of canine has been discovered. What was originally thought to be a golden jackal -- has now been confirmed by researchers to be a new type of wolf ...

  9. Aardwolf - Wikipedia

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    The aardwolf (Proteles cristatus [3]) is an insectivorous hyaenid species, native to East and Southern Africa.Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. [4] [5] It is also called the maanhaar-jackal [6] [7] (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), termite-eating hyena [8] and civet hyena, based on its habit of secreting substances from its anal gland, a characteristic shared with the African civet.