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Description
Common Name: Graey-backed Jackal
Common Name Synonyms: Black-backed Jackal, Red Jackal, Silver-Backed Jackal, Saddle-Backed Jackal, Bweha Shaba, Bweha Nyakunda, Golden Bweha, Graeyback
Scientific Name: Lupulella/Canis mesomelas
Size: 30-50cm tall in the shoulders, 60-75cm from snout to tail-base + 25-45cm = 85-120cm from snout to tail
Classification: Caniform
Habitat: Savannas, Forests, Deserts, Beaches
Diet: Omnivorous; diet consisted of insects, fruits, carrion, lizards, snakes, young and small antelopes, arachnids, fish, mussels, seal pups, warthogs, gazelles, aardwolves
Description: Among Africa's most carnivorous dogs, along with the African Wild Dog(aka African Dhole, African Hooey Hound, etc.), the graeyback jackal was the most basal members of the clade of the wolf-like dogs. Like that of their more wolfish cousins in North America, the coyote, that graeybacks had reputations as scavengers, the beasts' con-artists, tricksters in folklore and culture, like if you are a fan of Jackal(from TingaTinga Tales), Reirei, Goigoi, Dogo and their jackal family(from the TV series of the Lion King, The Lion Guard) being depicted as antagonists(But Jackal from TingaTinga Tales is sometimes not an antagonist in some episodes), then you know that these characters are depicted as graeyback jackals, which makes the graeyback being the best known African jackal that has been studied. Some adaptations of the Jungle Book, besides depicting Tabaqui as a hyena(e.g. striped, spotted, or even rarely brown), Tabaqui is depicted as an Indian Jackal, but he might been looked like a graeyback, because Indian Jackals(Canis aureus indica) are too much of that they strongly resembled and similar to their bigger cousins, Indian wolves(Canis lupus pallipes/indica). Similar ranges to the primitive looking small aardwolf, the graey-back jackals are native to eastern and southern parts of Africa. They can share leftovers with rivals or allies, like the famous predators that can clash over each others' territories, lions and spotted hyenas for example. Also the scavengers who shared leftovers with these bwehas, are its wolfish cousin, the African Golden Jackal(Canis anthus)(aka, African Wolf, African Graey Wolf, etc.), and their rivals, critically endangered vultures. They can rival against brown hyenas for their food in the beaches where fur seals lived in, which these graeybacks can hunt in packs to take down fur seal puppies. Not all graeybacks can hunt in packs, like larger and northern cousins, American(Canis nubilus) and Eurasian graey wolves(Canis lupus), the graeyback bwehas lived alone, or in pairs, or even in a family group. A family pack of graeybacks, are consisted of a mother, father, and their cute but deadly-looking puppies. As graeybacks are considered jackals, they are the smallest, and the most aggressive members of the Canis lineage, but they are even more bigger than fennec foxes. Their snarls are more of a red fox than most wolf-like dogs(except for dholes, which their snarls are foxlike), that means that they can bare lower teeth, when angered and threatened. These canids can make sounds, like yipping and yapping, similar howls like African golden wolves, and cackles like foxes and even spotted hyenas(although hyenas are still more closely related to cats than dogs).

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995

Description
Common Name: Graey-backed Jackal
Common Name Synonyms: Black-backed Jackal, Red Jackal, Silver-Backed Jackal, Saddle-Backed Jackal, Bweha Shaba, Bweha Nyakunda, Golden Bweha, Graeyback
Scientific Name: Lupulella/Canis mesomelas
Size: 30-50cm tall in the shoulders, 60-75cm from snout to tail-base + 25-45cm = 85-120cm from snout to tail
Classification: Caniform
Habitat: Savannas, Forests, Deserts, Beaches
Diet: Omnivorous; diet consisted of insects, fruits, carrion, lizards, snakes, young and small antelopes, arachnids, fish, mussels, seal pups, warthogs, gazelles, aardwolves
Description: Among Africa's most carnivorous dogs, along with the African Wild Dog(aka African Dhole, African Hooey Hound, etc.), the graeyback jackal was the most basal members of the clade of the wolf-like dogs. Like that of their more wolfish cousins in North America, the coyote, that graeybacks had reputations as scavengers, the beasts' con-artists, tricksters in folklore and culture, like if you are a fan of Jackal(from TingaTinga Tales), Reirei, Goigoi, Dogo and their jackal family(from the TV series of the Lion King, The Lion Guard) being depicted as antagonists(But Jackal from TingaTinga Tales is sometimes not an antagonist in some episodes), then you know that these characters are depicted as graeyback jackals, which makes the graeyback being the best known African jackal that has been studied. Some adaptations of the Jungle Book, besides depicting Tabaqui as a hyena(e.g. striped, spotted, or even rarely brown), Tabaqui is depicted as an Indian Jackal, but he might been looked like a graeyback, because Indian Jackals(Canis aureus indica) are too much of that they strongly resembled and similar to their bigger cousins, Indian wolves(Canis lupus pallipes/indica). Similar ranges to the primitive looking small aardwolf, the graey-back jackals are native to eastern and southern parts of Africa. They can share leftovers with rivals or allies, like the famous predators that can clash over each others' territories, lions and spotted hyenas for example. Also the scavengers who shared leftovers with these bwehas, are its wolfish cousin, the African Golden Jackal(Canis anthus)(aka, African Wolf, African Graey Wolf, etc.), and their rivals, critically endangered vultures. They can rival against brown hyenas for their food in the beaches where fur seals lived in, which these graeybacks can hunt in packs to take down fur seal puppies. Not all graeybacks can hunt in packs, like larger and northern cousins, American(Canis nubilus) and Eurasian graey wolves(Canis lupus), the graeyback bwehas lived alone, or in pairs, or even in a family group. A family pack of graeybacks, are consisted of a mother, father, and their cute but deadly-looking puppies. As graeybacks are considered jackals, they are the smallest, and the most aggressive members of the Canis lineage, but they are even more bigger than fennec foxes. Their snarls are more of a red fox than most wolf-like dogs(except for dholes, which their snarls are foxlike), that means that they can bare lower teeth, when angered and threatened. These canids can make sounds, like yipping and yapping, similar howls like African golden wolves, and cackles like foxes and even spotted hyenas(although hyenas are still more closely related to cats than dogs).

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995