#Canis Aureus

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Syrian Jackal | Erez Hirschfield

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🐺 ANIMAL OF THE DAY: the golden jackal, Canis aureus, from north of the Black Sea (Eurasia). actually not a jackal, but more closely related to wolves. met one once in an Antiques Shop trying to sell an Elephant Tusk. this is illegal i think. regardless i roundhouse kicked him

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[yourlocal-therian]

sorry im just kinda in a funk rn take a moodboard ig

jackal w/ golden themes

[inatcanids]

Golden Jackal Canis aureus

Observed by attilaolah, CC BY-NC

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[nikofortuna]

JTTW Chapter 36 Thoughts

Chapter 36 for the @journeythroughjourneytothewest Reading Group!

We’ve got creatures galore this time around!

Why can’t you give us the slice of life, huh? Why can’t you, the people want to read fluff too! I know I’d love to.

So as I’m attempting to keep track of the passage of time stated in the text there seems to have been a timeskip of multiple years. The changing of seasons up until last chapter only indicated around one and a half years passing, so either Tang Sanzang is exaggerating and only half a year to one year passes, so definitely one Winter since the narration mentioned frost, or it’s really been a couple of years.

Deer, deer, deer! No fallow deer, those are muntjac deer in the Chinese Original. Cute in the silliest way.

River deer basically yes, our lovely goofy Chinese Water Deer.

Now hold it! Those are not wolves! In the Chinese Original they are either Dholes or a kind of jackal. All three are in the family of Canidae. The wolf shares the Canis genus with jackals, while dholes and jackals are of the same tribe Canini.

I’m leaning more towards Cuon Alpinus so Dholes, which range throughout Asia and are also called Red Wolf or Mountain Wolf, but that might also be personal bias for I watched the Wild Kratts episode on them.

They are really social even more so than wolves and just overall very sweet. However they are classed as endangered!

They also come in a fluffy variant.

Jackals are really neat too though, here it might specifically be the Canis Aureus commonly known as Golden Jackal, which are native to Eurasia.

From Anthony C. Yu’s notes I concur the Vajra-guardians definitely do not look like cherubs neither the modern version nor the biblically accurate one. But they might be somewhat similar in function! Cherubim are assigned to protect special places as one of their jobs, so that guardian function might be the similarity that led to the comparison.

Tang Sanzang getting pouty is so endearing, much more than any ‘scared of demon’ instance.

Though in my opinion the monastery should have been able to kick out those guys that were causing needless trouble over multiple years. Give aid to fellow people yes, but if they knowingly and wilfully act out like that they rescind their right to stay.

Again with the property damage, Sun Wukong might have already cut down on violence against people, but no door is safe from him still.

[noneun]

Non tutti i cacciatori sono bracconieri, ma tutti i bracconieri sono cacciatori. E non sorprende che chi uccide per divertimento possa uscire dalle larghe maglie della legalità e compiere atti ancora più crudeli, come questo.

Il fatto che lo sciacallo dorato sia una specie protetta non è un deterrente, evidentemente.

[mirtadraws]

The second painting I made at the Feminist Art Colony in Sićevo: "Čagalj" (Golden jackal). I really enjoyed painting the soft colours with dry pastels - I'd never worked with dry pastels before and I really loved the process. On the downside, applying fixative kinda ruined the colours :( They became darker and more blurred together, with less nuance… Now I know for next time working with these pastels - best to immediately protect it under a glass frame, fixatives will only destroy the colours! :'( Although, I've heard that there exist fixatives specialized for pastels - anyone know something about it?

70x50cm dry pastel on Fabriano watercolour paper

PS I wanted to paint a golden jackal because they are very interesting and charismatic animals to me. They live where I live (Dalmatia), and yet I've never seen one - they are afraid of humans and very secretive. They don't have a good reputation - people hate and fear them. Very little is known about their behaviour and social lives.

[leaf-thief]

i filmed the spirit of the forest behind my house

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European Jackal | Zozo

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Golden jackal (Canis aureus)

© Sergey Zlatkov

[euther1a]

Tried painting from reference as practice. I really don't like the result but I definitely learned a lot. Uploading it so I can track my progress.

[inatcanids]

Golden Jackal Canis aureus

Observed by tomfeild, CC BY-NC