Diet Overlap

Felis chaus (Jungle Cat)
Canis aureus (Golden Jackal)

Common Diet

Axis axis (chital)
Golunda ellioti (Indian bush rat)
Lepus nigricollis (Indian Hare)
Mus platythrix (flat-haired mouse)
Tatera indica (Indian gerbil)

Common Habitat

Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Afghan Mountains semi-desert
Africa
Amirkelayeh Lake
Amudarya Zapovednik
Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
Baluchistan xeric woodlands
Bandhavgarh National Park
Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
Caucasus
Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands
Central Anatolian deciduous forests
Central Anatolian steppe
Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
Central Indochina dry forests
Central Persian desert basins
Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests
Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests
Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests
Chumbi-Surla Wildlife Sanctuary
Deccan thorn scrub forests
East Afghan montane conifer forests
East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
Elburz Range forest steppe
Eravikulam National Park
Erawan National Park
Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)
Ghorat-Hazarajat alpine meadow
Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
Goadavari-Krishna mangroves
Gomardah Sanctuary
Himalaya
Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
Himalayan subtropical pine forests
Hindu Kush alpine meadow
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary
Indo-Burma
Indravati Tiger Reserve
Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
Indus Valley desert
Irano-Anatolian
Irrawaddy dry forests
Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests
Kanha Tiger Reserve
Kaplankyr Zapovednik
Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary
Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests
Khazar Zapovednik
Kopetdagh Zapovednik
Kudremukh National Park
Kugitang Zapovednik
Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands
Lal Suhanra National Park
Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Luang Prabang montane rain forests
Malabar Coast moist forests
Manas National Park
Mediterranean Basin
Meghalaya subtropical forests
Mesopotamian shrub desert
Middle East steppe
Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests
Mountains of Central Asia
Mujib Nature Reserve
Myanmar Coast mangroves
Myanmar coastal rain forests
Namdapha National Park
Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
Nile Delta flooded savanna
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
North Western Ghats montane rain forests
Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests
Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
Northern Annamites rain forests
Northern dry deciduous forests
Northern Indochina subtropical forests
Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests
Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests
Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
Northwestern thorn scrub forests
Orissa semi-evergreen forests
Palamau Tiger Reserve
Pang Sida National Park
Paropamisus xeric woodlands
Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert
Phu Phan National Park
Rajaji National Park
Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
Ranthambore National Park
Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert
Repetek Biosphere Reserve
Royal Chitwan National Park
Saharan halophytics
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Simlipal Tiger Reserve
South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
South Western Ghats montane rain forests
Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests
Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
Southern Annamites montane rain forests
Southern Asia
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
Sri Lanka lowland rain forests
Sri Lanka montane rain forests
Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests
Sundarbans mangroves
Sunderban
Syunt-Khasardagh Zapovednik
Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary
Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
Thap Lan National Park
Thar desert
Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary
Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
Wilpattu National Park
Zagros Mountains forest steppe

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Majumder, A., K. Sankar, Q. Qureshi & S. Basu (2011). Food habits and temporal activity patterns of the Golden Jackal Canis aureus and the Jungle Cat Felis chaus in Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(11): 2221–2225
♦ 2The importance of rodents in the diet of jungle cat (Felis chaus), caracal (Caracal caracal) and golden jackal (Canis aureus) in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India, Shomita Mukherjee, S. P. Goyal, A. J. T. Johnsingh and M. R. P. Leite Pitman, J. Zool., Lond. (2004) 262, 405–411