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INDIAN GOLDEN JACKAL
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Forest Areas, Dwarka,
Gujarat, India
Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc. The Golden jackals in
Europe fall under various international legal
instruments. Golden jackals population for
the Indian subcontinent is estimated to be
more than 80,000. Sometimes the golden jack-
als carry diseases and parasites for humans
and their health. In India during british rules
Golden jackal have used for hunting.
he Golden Jackal is an animal like
wolf and scientific name is Canis Aureus. The
population of this animal distributed widely in
South East Europe, South Asia, South West Asia
and South East Asia. This jackal is smaller animal.
They have short legs, short tail, mideum hight, less
prominent forehead, pointed muzzle. The Golden
Jackal vary in color creamy yellow in summer and
dark tawny in winter. They are founds in habitant
at valleys, besides of rivers, lakes, canales and sea-
shores. They are rare in hills and mountains.
The golden jackal is similar animal to the
gray wolf but is smaller than gray wolf, light
weight, shorter legs, short tail, less prominent
forehead and a pointed muzzle that is narrow-
er. The legs are long in relationship with its body,
and the feet are slender with small pads.
Males are longer 30 to 35 inches in body
length while females are 25 to 30 inches longer
in body length. Weight of males is around 5 to
15 kilograms while females are light weight than
males and weight is around 6 to 12 kilograms.
The height at shoulder for both is around 17 to
20 inches. The golden jackal is a less specialized
species than the gray wolf. The diet of golden jack-
als are carrion, rodents, fruit, insects, small birds,
small vertebrates, and some vegetable. Fur of the
golden jackals are coarse and relatively short,
varying seasonally from a pale creamy yellow in
summer to a dark tawny in winter with based
color of golden. The fur on the back is com-
posed with black, brown and white colored hairs.
The underparts of Golden Jackals are a light gin-
ger to cream color.
The Golden Jackals are social animal that
mostly finding in group. They mostly seems in
pair of 2 or 3 and sometimes 5 members in a
group. They are feed snakes, lizards, gerbils, fish,
muskrates, fruits, watermelon,grapes etc. They
are widly distributed in South Asian countries
like India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh,
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