{"id":9405,"date":"2019-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/black-backed-jackal\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:54:53","slug":"zadeljakhals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-national-park-animals-guide\/black-backed-jackal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zwartrugjakhal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Name<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Black-backed Jackals<\/strong> [Canis mesomelas]<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Appearance<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Black-backed Jackal<\/strong> is a smallish dog like animal that has a dominantly red-rust colour coat with a distinct black patch on its back that stretches from the neck to the tail. It has a pointy face with large pointy ears. Both male and female Black-backed Jackals have long legs. The male weighs an average of 8kg while the female weighs 7kg.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diet<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Black-backed Jackal is a scavenger animal that prefers finding prey than catching it. They are omnivores that has a diet of hares, chickens, small birds, reptiles and prey smaller than itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Breeding<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Black-backed Jackals<\/strong> have a gestation period of about 60 days in which an average of 2 pups are born.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Behaviour<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Black-backed Jackals<\/strong> are nocturnal animals that can live in solitary, with a partner or in a small pack. Jackals prefer areas with tall grass that helps them camouflage during hunting or to protect them from much larger predators like lions or leopards. Black-backed Jackals have a variety of ways they can communicate like yelping, barking, cackling or howling. Black-backed Jackals are very territorial animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Location<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <strong>Black-backed Jackals<\/strong> have two main regions where they are encountered. The first area includes; Namibia, South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. These animals aren\u2019t a common sight in the Kruger Park but there have been sightings of Black-backed Jackals on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/kruger-national-park-safaris-and-tours\/kruger-national-park-day-tours\/kruger-park-full-day-safari\/\">Kruger Day safaris<\/a>. The other region where these jackals can be found is Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Study Notes<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <strong>Black-backed Jackals<\/strong> have a very distinctive black stripe on its back making it easy to identify.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Black-backed Jackals [Canis mesomelas] Appearance Black-backed Jackal is a smallish dog like animal that has a dominantly red-rust colour coat with a distinct black patch on its back that stretches from the neck to the tail. It has a pointy face with large pointy ears. Both male and female Black-backed Jackals have long legs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-animal-tour-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}