Canis adustus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,221 meters (0 to 7,287 feet).[1]

Ecology: Side-striped Jackals occupy a range of habitats , from game areas through farmland to towns within the broad-leaved savanna zones, including wooded habitats, bush , grassland, abandoned cultivation, marshes and montane habitats up to 2,700 m (Kingdon 1977, 1997; Estes 1991). The species tends to avoid very open savanna (although Rowe-Rowe (1992) mentions they occur in open grassland in north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal), thickly wooded areas and arid zones (Stuart and Stuart 1988; Skinner and Smithers 1990; Kingdon 1997), but Kingdon (1997) states that it enters the equatorial forest belt in the wake of human settlement . Side-striped Jackals frequently occur near rural dwellings and farm buildings (Skinner and Smithers 1990; Kingdon 1997), and penetrate peri-urban and urban areas (Liebenberg 1990; Skinner and Smithers 1990). In Botswana, Smithers (1971) recorded them where mean annual rainfall was 400700 mm, and many authors note that the species occurs in well-watered areas (e.g. , Kingdon 1977; Skinner and Smithers 1990). Where Side-striped Jackals occur sympatrically with other jackal species, they may avoid competition by ecological segregation (Fuller et al. 1989). In such areas of sympatry, Side-striped Jackals usually occupy areas of denser vegetation, while Black-backed and Golden Jackals dominate in the more open areas (Loveridge 1999; Loveridge and Macdonald 2003).[2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Aug-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Canis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 30 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. adustus (Side-Striped Jackal) · C. adustus adustus (Side-Striped Jackal) · C. aureus (Asiatic Jackal) · C. aureus aureus (Golden Jackal) · C. latrans (American Jackal) · C. latrans clepticus (Coyote) · C. latrans latrans (Coyote) · C. lupis baileyi (Mexican Wolf) · C. lupus (Domestic Dog (Feral)) · C. lupus arctos (Arctic Wolf) · C. lupus baileyi (Mexican Gray Wolf) · C. lupus beothucus (Newfoundland Wolf) · C. lupus dingo (Dingo) · C. lupus familiaris (Dingo) · C. lupus hodophilax (Japanese Wolf) · C. lupus irremotus (Northern Rocky Mountains Wolf) · C. lupus ligoni (Alexander Archipelago Wolf) · C. lupus lupus (Domestic Dog) · C. lupus lycaon (Eastern Wolf) · C. lupus minor (Austro-Hungarian Wolf) · C. lupus mogollonensis (Southwestern Wolf) · C. lupus nubilus (Southern Gray Wolf) · C. lupus occidentalis (Northern Gray Wolf) · C. lupus pallipes (Gray Wolf) · C. lupus tundrorum (Gray Wolf) · C. lupus youngi (Southern Rocky Mountains Wolf) · C. mesomelas (Silver-Backed Jackal) · C. microtis (Indus River Dolphin) · C. rufus (Red Wolf) · C. simensis (Ethiopian Wolf)

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Further Reading

• Anatomischer Anzeiger. Jena: G. Fischer, 1886- url p. 110, p. 6.
• Aus dem reiche der pelze. bd. I: Geschichte des rauchwarenhandels. bd. II: Naturgeschichte der pelztiere. Von Emil Brass. Berlin, Im verlage der Neuen pelzwaren-zeitung[pref. 1911] url , .
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 331, p. 371.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 123, p. 133, p. 134, p. 136, p. 141, p. 142, p. 147, p. 148, p. 149, p. 150, p. 154, p. 170, p. 171, p. 177, p. 194.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 83 1939 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 193, p. 23, p. 595.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 146, p. 149, p. 150, p. 151, p. 155.
• Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. CambridgeUniversity Press1908-14 url p. 481.
• Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (Natural History). By J.G. Dollman, B.A. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1921. url p. 105, p. 105, p. 6, p. 6.
• Catalogue of the Selous collection of big game in the British museum (Natural History) by J.G. Dollman. LondonPrinted by order of the Trustees1921 url p. 105, p. 6.
• Catalogue of the bones of Mammalia in the collection of the British museum. London, Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1862. url .
• Catalogue of the bones of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum / [compiled by Edward Gerrard]. London: printed by Taylor and Francis, by order of the Trustees, 1862 url p. 85.
• Central African game and its spoor / by C.H. Stigand and D.D. Lyell; profusely illustrated with photographs of the same and drawings by D.D. Lyell. London: H. Cox, 1909. url p. 143.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. url p. 217, p. 217.
• Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae / by St. George Mivart; with woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by J. G. Keulemans and hand-coloured. London: R.H. Porter, 1890. url , , , p. 210, p. 49, p. 51.
• IUCN Directory of Afrotropical Protected Areas IUCN, UNEP url p. 1014, p. 15, p. 20, p. 230, p. 367, p. 371, p. 374, p. 429, p. 467, p. 487, p. 496, p. 533, p. 565, p. 61, p. 839.
• Mammals collected by the Swedish Zoological Expedition to British East Africa 1911 / by Einar Lnnberg. With 15 plates and 6 figures in the text. Uppsala; Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1912. url p. 28, p. 57, p. 8.
• Mammals of the Soviet Union / V.G. Heptner, A.A. Nasimovich, and A.G. Bannikov; scientific editor, Robert S. Hoffmann. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, 1988- url p. 128.
• Natural history, by R. Lydekker [and others] London, Hutchinson, 1897. url p. 732.
• North American Quaternary Canis / Ronald M. Nowak. Lawrence, Kans.: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1979. url fig. 55, page 119, p. 66.
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Notes

Contributors

• Atkinson, R.P.D. & Loveridge, A.J. 2008. Canis adustus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 14, 2008:

• Field Museum: Mammal specimens
• GBIF-Sweden: Mammals (NRM)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Michigan State University Museum: Vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-183819
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13837611
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 183819
• IUCN ID: 197740
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 777

Footnotes

1. Mean = 627.470 meters (2,058.629 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,488.040 based on 19 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Atkinson, R.P.D. & Loveridge, A.J. 2008. Canis adustus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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