#lupulella mesomelas mesomelas

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Southern Bat-eared Fox & Southern Black-backed Jackal | tessabrunette

[snototter]

A black backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas) pup in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

by praveen pandian

[birdblues]

Black-backed Jackal

[kachavashka]

Makuya

Makuya is a Black-Backed Jackal from my story Fate of the Wildlands.

He's a lovable goofball who has nothing bad to say about anything (mostly because he's non-verbal). What he lacks in cognitive abilities, he makes up for with his big heart. Makuya loves everyone and everything unconditionally.

The Atanis discovered Makuya as an orphan pup. No one knows what happened to his parents. Despite the fact that he was a different species, the Atanis adopted baby Makuya and quickly accepted him as one of the pack.

Nowdays, he helps out with odd jobs, looking after and playing with the pups, and keeping the old dogs company.

Here's some music I associate with him: https://youtu.be/YnfhInZLmUQ?si=yC3eILr5yUbIxNb7&t=997

[inatcanids]

Southern Black-backed Jackal Lupulella mesomelas ssp. mesomelas

Observed by xavierpiron, CC BY-NC

[mammalianmammals]

Black-backed Jackals (Lupulella mesomelas), get into a squabble, family Canidae, Tanzania

photograph by Ward Poppe

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85993592]

Black-Backed Jackal || Lupulella mesomelas

Observed in Namibia

Least Concern in location of observation

Albino

[antiqueanimals]

Lupulella mesomelas. Struik Pocket Guides for South Africa: Mammals. Written by John Skinner. Illustrated by Penny Meakin. 1988.

Internet Archive

[flannelfoxen]

Lupulella mesomelas / Black-Backed Jackals

11/1/23 Wildlife World Zoo

[lost-lycaon]

Black-backed Jackal, Lupulella mesomelas.

A sleek, handsome fox-like canid, the adaptable jackal will eat almost anything including fresh meat, garbage, berries, insects, whatever will help them provide. Jackals are monogamous, and they mate for life. Keen and intelligent, they render most fences useless, can evade traps, and have learned to avoid poisons that farmers have set for them over the years.

[lord-allo]

Schabrackenschakal | Black-backed jackal, silver-backed jackal

Lupulella mesomelas (Syn.: Canis mesomelas)

[Etosha]

[packpack-killkill]

Southern Black-backed Jackal | Birger Strahl

[snototter]

A black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas) in Masai Mara National Park, Kenya

by Dale Harding

[hyena-ref-photos]

Brown hyena © josscarr on iNaturalist

Note by OP:

This observation for: brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) Context: A pride of lions (Panthera leo ssp. melanochaita) feasting on a fresh zebra (Equus quagga) kill, and being circled by scavenging black-backed jackals (Lupulella mesomelas ssp. mesomelas) and brown hyenas (Parahyaena brunnea) further out.

[blogforfauna]

Lupulella mesomelas

Until recently, jackals were in the Canis genus with wolves and coyotes. They are now in their own genus called lupulella, which consists of only two species- the side-striped jackal and the black-backed jackal. Golden jackals aren’t included in this genus because recent studies have shown that they are more closely related to grey wolves than to other jackal species.

The smallest jackal species is the black-backed jackal, found in Southern and Eastern Africa. They weigh roughly 13 to 20 pounds (5.8 to 9 kg) and are named after their distinctive “saddles,” or dark-colored bands on their backs.

Black-backed jackals are quite social. Most of them do almost everything in pairs, including hunting, digging dens, and raising pups, and they often form small family groups or packs. Because they are often hunted by leopards, eagles, and especially hyenas, which are much larger than them, groups of jackals are often more successful in raising pups and guarding their food.

Jackals usually target small animals like lizards, rodents, and hares, but groups of jackals will target impala, wildebeest calves, and other larger prey. They also eat insects and vegetation like plums and figs.

Although they are regularly hunted for their fur and by farmers and ranchers protecting livestock, black-backed jackals are classified as least concern. This means they are quite common and are not in danger of extinction.

I rate the black-backed jackal 12/10. Their ears are the perfect size

Photo credits:

(1) Thomas Reich (2) Sean Crane (3) Sean Crane (4) Chris Hartzell (5) Michael Cohen

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Pristine skull of Eucyon khoikhoi from Langebaanweeg (South Africa). 

Eucyon khoikhoi marks a critical moment in the evolution of African jackals 5Ma, the moment when they began to diversify outside North America, becoming more diverse and common later in the Pleistocene, until they culminated in the four living species on the African continent: the side-striped jackal (Schaeffia adusta), the black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas), the African golden wolf (Canis lupaster) and the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis),”

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