033 Golden jackal in Keoladeo National Park Photo by Giles Laurent🐾

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🐾Golden jackal

Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758

Altın çakal (Canis aureus), Bayağı çakal olarak da bilinir, köpekgiller (Canidae) familyası içerisinde, coyote ile çok yakın akraba olan bir çakal türü. Sadece "çakal" denildiği zaman neredeyse hep bu tür kast edilir.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/6th of your weight
Also called
Asiatic Jackal, Common Jackal
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
11 kg
Body length
0.94 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
19 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Golden jackal

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
11 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 11 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.94 m
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Brain mass
75 g
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Maximum lifespan
19 years
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  • 19 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
5.85 years
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Age at maturity
1.0 years
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Gestation
62 days
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  • 63 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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  • 3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
2.95 km²
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Population density
0.4 per km²
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Volume l
11 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Golden jackal yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyCanidae
  6. ›genusCanis
  7. ›speciesCanis aureus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. suborderCaniformia
  4. familyCanidae
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyCanidae
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Closest relative on this site
🐕 Dog — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.2 million years ago.
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What it eats
warm-blooded animals56%
insects and other invertebrates11%
reptiles, fish and amphibians11%
fish11%
fruit11%
In other languages
Goldschakal (de), chacal dorado (es), Шакал звичайний (uk), ابن آوى الذهبي (ar), xacal comú (ca), šakal obecný (cs) … and 28 more languages

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