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Subject: Do Jackals Exist in the USA?
Written By: LyricBoy on 05/15/13 at 3:35 pm
Yesterday I saw this weird creature in my back yard. The head looked like a mix between a deer, cat, and dog, and it had a very bushy, long tail.
Did some Googling and it looked identical to pics of jackals, :o which are not supposed to be in North America.
Literature says that coyotes are distant relatives to jackals, but all the coyote pics I have seen don't look like the animal I saw. Thing looked like a jackal.
Anybody got any ideas here?
If you saw my neighborhood it is not we here you'd expect to see either a jackal or a coyote.
Subject: Re: Do Jackals Exist in the USA?
Written By: gibbo on 05/15/13 at 5:26 pm
Are you telling you didn't shoot it? :o
Subject: Re: Do Jackals Exist in the USA?
Written By: LyricBoy on 05/15/13 at 5:34 pm
Are you telling you didn't shoot it? :o
Well my next door neighbor is a State Cop with young kids, so I figured he might frown on that sort of thing. :P
Subject: Re: Do Jackals Exist in the USA?
Written By: ninny on 05/15/13 at 5:37 pm
Yesterday I saw this weird creature in my back yard. The head looked like a mix between a deer, cat, and dog, and it had a very bushy, long tail.
Did some Googling and it looked identical to pics of jackals, :o which are not supposed to be in North America.
Literature says that coyotes are distant relatives to jackals, but all the coyote pics I have seen don't look like the animal I saw. Thing looked like a jackal.
Anybody got any ideas here?
If you saw my neighborhood it is not we here you'd expect to see either a jackal or a coyote.
One never knows nowadays what wild animals live in America. I know in my area we have coyotes and foxes, maybe it was a gray fox.
Subject: Re: Do Jackals Exist in the USA?
Written By: Mushroom on 05/15/13 at 5:40 pm
Depending on the breed, the two can look very much alike.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/43427882_a7c0f4a9c3.jpg
http://a-z-animals.com/media/animals/images/470x370/coyote6.jpg
Subject: Re: Do Jackals Exist in the USA?
Written By: LyricBoy on 05/15/13 at 6:44 pm
The animal looked almost exactly like this... the bushy tail, big triangular ears, and smallish face. The coat of the animal was very close to this pic too.
http://a-z-animals.com/media/animals/images/470x370/jackal1.jpg
I read that Coyotes like to steal burrows from ground hogs. The place where I saw the animal is loaded with land beavers, so maybe indeed it is a coyote. If so it was the weirdest looking one I've ever seen. :o
Subject: Re: Do Jackals Exist in the USA?
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/15/13 at 7:02 pm
One never knows nowadays what wild animals live in America. I know in my area we have coyotes and foxes, maybe it was a gray fox.
I was thinking it might be an escaped exotic pet. Why would somebody want a jackal for a pet? I don't know. I don't know why somebody would want a crocodile for a pet either, but some dude had one in a Brooklyn walkup!
8)
It might also be a coyote-domestic dog mix known as a coydog. These can be very odd-looking canids. However, this is not likely since coyotes and dogs don't tend to interbreed in the wild.
http://www.everythingwolf.com/sitewide/imagelib/newsletter7/IMG_3961.jpg