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Canis adustus (Side-striped Jackal)

Wikipedia Abstract

The side-striped jackal (Canis adustus) is a species of jackal, native to central and southern Africa. Unlike its cousin, the smaller black-backed jackal, which dwells in open plains, the side-striped jackal primarily dwells in woodland and scrub areas.
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Infraspecies

Canis adustus adustus (Side-striped jackal)
Canis adustus bweha (Side-striped jackal)
Canis adustus grayi
Canis adustus kaffensis (Side-striped jackal)
Canis adustus lateralis
Canis adustus notatus (Side-striped jackal)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.46
EDGE Score: 1.49
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  19.511 lbs (8.85 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  208 grams
Female Weight [1]  18.298 lbs (8.30 kg)
Male Weight [1]  20.724 lbs (9.40 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  13.3 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  30 %
Diet - Plants [3]  20 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  20 %
Diet - Vertibrates [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  9 months 4 days
Male Maturity [4]  9 months 4 days
Gestation [4]  64 days
Litter Size [4]  4
Litters / Year [4]  2
Maximum Longevity [4]  14 years
Nocturnal [5]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  32 inches (82 cm)
Weaning [4]  42 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Guinean Forests of West Africa Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo No
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No

Prey / Diet

Nanger granti (Grant's gazelle)[1]
Otomys angoniensis (Angoni vlei rat)[6]
Pedetes capensis (Springhare)[1]
Raphicerus sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Panthera pardus (Leopard)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ancylostoma caninum[8]
Ctenocephalides felis strongylus[9]
Pterygodermatites cahirensis[8]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 16.1 Side-striped jackal, Canis adustus, R.P.D. Atkinson and A.J. Loveridge, Sillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. and Macdonald, D.W. (eds). 2004. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 430 pp.
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 6Otomys angoniensis, G. N. Bronner and J. A. J. Meester, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 306, pp. 1-6 (1988)
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 9International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0