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Canis aureus

(Chacal Commun)

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Dutch:

Gewone jakhals

Common Names in English:

Asiatic Jackal, Common Jackal, golden jackal, Jackal

Common Names in French:

Chacal Commun, Chacal Dor?, Le Chacal Commun

Common Names in Russian:

Шакал обыкновенный (азиатский)

Common Names in Spanish:

CHACAL

Description

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Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,469 meters (0 to 17,943 feet).[1]

Ecology: Due to their tolerance of dry habitats and their omnivorous diet , the Golden Jackal can live in a wide variety of habitats. These range from the Sahel Desert to the evergreen forests of Myanmar and Thailand. They occupy semi-desert, short to medium grasslands and savannas in Africa; and forested, mangrove , agricultural, rural and semi-urban habitats in India and Bangladesh (Clutton-Brock et al. 1976; Poche et al. 1987; Y. Jhala, pers. obs.). Golden Jackals are opportunistic and will venture into human habitation at night to feed on garbage. Jackals have been recorded at elevations of 3,800 m in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia (Sillero-Zubiri 1996) and are well established around hill stations at 2,000 m in India (Prater 1980).[2].

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Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Aug-2007

Similar Species

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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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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

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Footnotes

  1. Mean = 311.220 meters (1,021.063 feet), Standard Deviation = 353.660 based on 1,704 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
  2. Jhala, Y.V. & Moehlman, P.D. 2008. Canis aureus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-14