#0099 · 🦊 mammals

Golden Jackal

🇳🇱 Gewone Jakhals ·Canis aureus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Balaji Venkatesh Sivaramakrishnan · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
3. © Paulo Paixão · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © benjamynweil · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Rejoice Gassah · CC BY 4.0
6. © Mohammad Amin Ghaffari · CC BY 4.0
7. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The golden jackal ( Canis aureus ) is a wolf-like canid that is native to Southeast Europe, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and regions of Southeast Asia. Compared with the Arabian wolf, which is the smallest of the gray wolves ( Canis lupus ), the jackal is smaller and possesses shorter legs, a shorter tail, a more elongated torso, a less-prominent forehead, and a narrower and more pointed muzzle. The golden jackal's coat can vary in color from a pale creamy...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,387iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
7,387 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).