When the pups are still very small, food is regurgitated for them and later, as they mature, the food is carried back in the mouth and left for them to eat either inside or often near the entrance to the hole.
Black-backed jackals are efficient hunters of mammals up to the size of scrub hares and springhares. The young of smaller antelopes are also taken when available. Their enemies are mainly humans and leopards. Black-backed jackals have a well-developed communication system — including communication calls, scent marking with urine and faeces, optical marking with faeces on rocks, bushes etc.
As the dominant predator in many areas of southern Africa where the larger predators have been eliminated, the black-backed jackal plays an important role in maintaining the health of the ecosystem. As a result of its size and adaptability, it selects antelope that are weak or sick, and in so doing, removes animals that would otherwise release enormous numbers of parasites into the environment.
Black-backed jackals feature prominently in the folklore of the Khoikhoi, where they are often paired with the lion, which they frequently outsmart or betray with their superior intelligence. One story explains that the black-backed jackal gained its dark saddle when it offered to carry the sun on its back. Black-backed jackals will occasionally hunt domestic animals, including dogs, cats, pigs, goats, sheep and poultry, with sheep tending to predominate. Jackals can be a serious problem for sheep farmers, particularly during the lambing season.
The Tswana people often made hats and cloaks out of black-backed jackal skins. Between and , jackal pelts nearly 50 a year were produced in South Africa. Jackals in their winter fur were in great demand, though animals killed by poison were less valued, as their fur would shed. Black-backed jackals are listed by the IUCN as Least Concern LC due to their widespread range and adaptability, although they are still persecuted as livestock predators and rabies vectors.
Currently, there is no significant trade in jackal products, although body parts are used in traditional African medicine. Members of the Canidae family are found in the wild in most areas around the world, with the exception of New Zealand, Australia, Antarctica and some oceanic islands.
The family is represented in the sub-region by three subfamilies: the Caninae, which includes the side-striped jackal, Canis adustus , the black-backed jackal, C. Skip to content. Home » Animal of the week » Black-backed jackal. May 3, Common names: Black-backed jackal, rooijakkals Derivation of name Canis is the Latin translation of dog or hound. How to recognise a black-backed jackal Black-backed jackals have a dark saddle on the back, which runs from the nape of the neck to the base of the tail.
If the scales tipped in favor of the heart, a female demon named Ammit would devour the deceased person. If the feather won out, Anubis would bring the person to Osiris, the king of the underworld, who would bring them to heaven.
While some sources claim Anubis was the son of Osiris and was, in a sense, demoted to the role of the god of mummification so Osiris could take over as the ultimate deity of death, Almansa-Villatoro says that's version of events is not quite right. Egyptians worshipped many different gods associated with the afterlife, and each one of them tended to have specific roles.
Sometimes these roles could be overlapping, and one deity would be especially popular at a local level. In the case of Anubis and Osiris, their functions were clearly distinct since their earliest textual appearances. The previous and dead pharaoh was called Osiris since the Old Kingdom, while the current pharaoh would be Horus. From the Middle Kingdom also non-royal individuals were called Osiris after their death. On the other hand, Anubis was the god of mummification and cemeteries.
According to Egyptian mythology, Osiris was also the first mummy, and in some later traditions, Anubis helped in the embalming process of Osiris. Text references to Anubis can be found dating back to the Old Kingdom of Egypt c.
The Snake submitted to the test, and when she was covered by the stone the Jackal advised the Man to go away and leave her. But the Man proposed to consult other wise people before being bit, and after a while they met the Jackal. In another Kaffir story, the Jackal runs into a hole under a tree, but the Lion catches him by the tail.
Black represented the fertile soil of the Nile that was needed to grow yearly crops, so the Egyptians believed that the color black symbolized good fortune and rebirth. Jackals were associated with death, because they lurked around cemeteries and would eat decomposing flesh.
Therefore, by making Anubis the patron deity of jackals, the Egyptians hoped to protect the bodies from being devoured.
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