How To Use Jackal In A Sentence
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Wolves and jackals, when frightened, certainly tuck in their tails; and a tamed jackal has been described as careering round his master in circles and figures of eight, like a dog, with his tail between his legs.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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This guy, Jack Smith, does he go by the name of Jackal?
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There are 36 species of Canidae, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals and foxes.
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Waldi warns us not to set up our beds outside the camp tonight as hyenas and jackals prowl this area.
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Apart from sheltering smaller wildlife like rabbits, gaur and jackal, a part of the estate forms an elephant trail which pachyderms from the Bannerghatta range frequent.
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I could see Alexander cover his nose and his jackal buried its head beneath its paws.
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Other animal species to look out for include impala, blue wildebeest, waterbuck, zebra, nyala, kudu, bushbuck, warthog, cheetah, hyena, jackal and giraffe.
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These forests are home to other unusual and endangered species, including the Asiatic jackal and silvered langur, many of which have also disappeared from Laos.
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Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
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There's no other product like it: The simple fact is that Game Jackal Pro stands alone.
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Genetic information shows that the species, Canis aureus lupaster, is more closely related to Indian and Himalayan wolves than golden jackals.
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He had talked to her during the whole of dinner the night before about jackal-hunting with a bobbery pack -- not at all an elevated mind.
The Pool in the Desert
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_howling_ dervishes; all our religion consisted in howling like jackals or hyenas, with all our might, until we fell down in real or pretended convulsions.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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After I dropped them off, I took a ride. I saw 2 jackals skulking up the road and an unidentified fox crossed in front of me.
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He also established game on the farm - wildebeest, zebra, blesbok, duiker and jackals.
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One is carried by suricates and the other by dogs and dog-type animals, like jackals.
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Your mission: Capture and eliminate the Jackal, a dangerous weapons dealer helping to arm a terrible civil war ravaging Africa.
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Olbinett prepared the evening meal with his accustomed punctuality, and after this was dispatched, the travelers disposed themselves for the night in the wagon and in the tent, and were soon sleeping soundly, notwithstanding the melancholy howling of the "dingoes," the jackals of Australia.
In Search of the Castaways
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He whipped the bowie knife from the back of his sodden shirt, flashing it; his teeth bared like a cornered cat or jackal.
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The easiest solution is to kill hyenas, jackals and leopards with poisoned carcasses.
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They bounded over the desert—stone jackals and hackled lions and hulking hyenas.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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They include Asiatic or golden jackal Canis aureus, fennec fox Fennecus zerda (K), Rüppells sand fox Vulpes rüppelli (K), caracal Felis caracal and sand cat Felis margarita (K).
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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The other wild attractions in the park include nilgai, chausingha, chital, chinkara, wild boar, foxes and jackals.
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Meat was abundant, for those who could catch it or wrest it from the competition, i.e. leopards and lions, not to mention hyenas, jackals, and vultures.
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They are home to many smaller wildlife like jackals, hares, snakes, wild boar, pangolin and countless species of birds.
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I have been filming for 14 years now, working with hyenas, leopards, and jackals.
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Some other interesting wildlife here includes giraffe, leopard, cheetah, jackal, blue wildebeest, gemsbok and black rhino.
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Raccoons, civets, jackals, badgers, skunks, and bears also eat fruit, honey, seeds, roots, and other plant foods.
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Klipspringers and common jackals are also a regular sight on the plateau, and with luck you may even spot Walia ibex expertly balancing on the vertiginous rock ledges.
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We responded to losses by jackal predation by changing to an indigenous breed (Damaras flock better than Dorpers and resist predators better), bringing heavily pregnant ewes in to a safe camp, and kraaling our animals at night.
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The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa.
UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
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These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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There were pictures of jackals all over the wall and many jackal figurines.
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Golden jackals, hyenas and even leopards are present but very rarely seen.
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In a jerk the goat in tiger skin shivered with fear. Even the hesitant jackal which had stopped its steps was baffled.
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Raccoons, civets, jackals, badgers, skunks, and bears also eat fruit, honey, seeds, roots, and other plant foods.
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There are 36 species of Canidae, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals and foxes.
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They are not flyers or linkmen, natural jackals or breakdown artists.
Times, Sunday Times
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The moonlight lay sprawled across the jackal's face as he spoke with a growl, a doggish snarl.
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No, it was not a dog's head but probably of one of the wild canines; a wolf or perhaps a jackal.
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The other wild attractions in the park include nilgai, chausingha, chital, chinkara, wild boar, foxes and jackals.
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In this matter of going, readily do dogs, jackals and the like, know when they move on that they are moving.
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People need government to work for them, and this jackal is pleased that he and his party have been able to halt operations and progress.
Think Progress » Coburn: ‘I love gridlock’ because it means ‘we’re not passing things.’
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Mountain rhebuck, duiker, jackal, mongoose, porcupine and dassie now live in the Reserve.
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Walking the debauched Jahilian streets, his heart full of bile, Hamza has seen men and women in the guise of eagles, jackals, horses, gryphons, salamanders, wart -- hogs, rocs; welling up from the murk of the alleys have come two-headed amphisbaenae and the winged bulls known as Assyrian sphinxes.
The Satanic Verses
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The jackal is the most widely distributed top predator in the ecoregion.
Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
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No other animal species have so far died, but nature officials were worried that predators such as lions, vultures, jackals and hyena may feed off the flesh of the dead animals.
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The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa.
UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
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Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes.
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When the jackal got up, the suricates continued their harassing.
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We deal with everything from the smallest white-eye to a black vulture, from hedgehogs to jackals.
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Farmers are using these traps to catch anything that is a 'problem animal' such as caracal, jackals and honey badgers.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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They were called jackal-eaters, and it was said that when an outsider was admitted to one of their bands he was given jackal's flesh to eat.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
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Notably, those carnivoran species that have become human commensals are all generalized omnivores smaller than most wolves: raccoons Procyon lotor, Red foxes Vulpes vulpes, Golden jackals Canis aureus and coyotes C. latrans.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Other predators resident on the conservancy, which the lion could expect to encounter are the leopard, hyaena, jackal, lynx-like caracal, honey badger, serval and the small spotted genet.
Rare White Lions Return To The Wild | Impact Lab
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Other animal species to look out for include impala, blue wildebeest, waterbuck, zebra, nyala, kudu, bushbuck, warthog, cheetah, hyena, jackal and giraffe.
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I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
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Among cooperative breeders of certain other species, such as wolves and jackals, pups born in the same litter can be sired by different fathers.
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Domestic dogs and cats can pick up the infection if exposed to wild animals with the disease such as foxes, wolves, jackals, skunks, mongooses, raccoons and bats.
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No, it was not a dog's head but probably of one of the wild canines; a wolf or perhaps a jackal.
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Only five percent of mammals are thought to be socially monogamous, including gibbons, jackals, and tamarins.
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These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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Since they had left Pretoria the small voices of the jackals had yapped discreetly around each outspan, they were so much a part of the African night that they went unnoticed, but now suddenly there was a difference.
When the Lion Feeds
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Tiger, leopard, bear, jackal mask shape to be false to the production of fabrics or fur.
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Singh calls it a wolf, but in his diary1 he notes that it was probably a type of jackal, which is common to that region, rather than a true wolf.
How to Speak Dog
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Only five percent of mammals are thought to be socially monogamous, including gibbons, jackals, and tamarins.
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The steel jaws of the traps, which will catch any animal or person walking in the bush, are ostensibly for use against jackals but are often used by poachers to trap game.
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The little watering-place has returned to its primitive obscurity; and lions and lionesses, with their several jackals, blue surtouts, and bluer stockings, fiddlers and dancers, painters and amateurs, authors and critics, dispersed like pigeons by the demolition of a dovecot, have sought other scenes of amusement and rehearsal, and have deserted ST.
Saint Ronan's Well
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The birds are often poisoned when they pick up shreds of meat, which farmers put out to kill jackals and caracals.
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Other animal species to look out for include impala, blue wildebeest, waterbuck, zebra, nyala, kudu, bushbuck, warthog, cheetah, hyena, jackal and giraffe.
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After dark I drove the perimeter road and saw more jackals and foxes.
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The lion shares the forest with the leopard, the chital, the jackal, the wild boar, the peacock and the Maldharis, local herdsmen who have co-existed with the lions inside the forest.
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Waldi warns us not to set up our beds outside the camp tonight as hyenas and jackals prowl this area.
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I have been filming for 14 years now, working with hyenas, leopards, and jackals.
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II Riverwind, borrowed from night, grew as the eyes of the People, reading the air, the descending wind, the back of his mind a prophet, a jackal, while the cry of the leopard, unheard by the People except at the place where the world falls over, choired at the back of his head.
The Magic of Krynn
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There are 36 species of Canidae, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals and foxes.
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The dholes and jaguar were alert though, and already got the jackal who had an unhealthy interest in the horses surrounded.
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Leopard (Panthera pardus) and wolf (Canis lupis) are sighted occasionally within protected areas, as are golden jackal (Canis aureus), marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna) and the cats Felis catus, F. margarita, and F. manul may.
Central Persian desert basins
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Five times a jackal barks in the cold season, and the elephants trumpet and donkeys bay many times more.
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The little jackals they call foxes crossed our path at intervals.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
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In such a vast park there are only a few hundreds of wild animals which include the jackal, the fox, the dall sheep, the caribou and the moose.
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I think the Fire People had already begun to be afraid of the dark in this fashion; but the reasons we Folk had for breaking up our hee-hee councils and fleeing to our holes were old Saber-Tooth, the lions and the jackals, the wild dogs and the wolves, and all the hungry, meat-eating breeds.
CHAPTER XIV
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But the tail, drooping down the side of the shrine, is long and straight; and club-shaped at the tip, more like the brush of a fox than the curved tail of a dog, which is normally carried in an upright position rather than low down like that of a jackal, wolf, or fox.
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They have ‘newcomer’ written all over them, and the con-artists and pick-pockets gravitate towards them like jackals scenting carrion.
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Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
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(The jackal, or 'pathfinder' -- whose tracks sometimes lead to the remains of a food-animal slain by a lion, and many birds and insects, have a value of this kind.) "The use of animal totems for purposes of augury is, in all likelihood, of great antiquity.
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
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This muscle is infrequent in humans but is commonly found in the dog, fox, wolf, jackal, panther, and the dingo.
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Today, you will be lucky to see a jackal scamper off, or a black-naped hare lollop across a path.
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The title of his tome translates as "Revolutionary Islam," and parts of it read like fan mail to those Muslim heroes who replaced Marx and Lenin on the Jackal's hit parade.
Shadowland: From Communism To Al Qaeda
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But he never loosed his grip, and inch by inch he hauled the beast, hanging like a drowned jackal, up on the branch.
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Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna - lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.
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The savanna landscape supports a small antelope species called Grimm's duiker, side striped jackals, and rare birds including Denham's bustard.
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Whenever my faith in humanity is in danger of becoming restored, I am reminded that we are little more than evolved jackals and snakes.
Afghan Aid: It’s All About Women, Children, And Corrupt Officials « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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Over time, the best hybrids might have been much more wolf than jackal overall while retaining certain jackal behavioral characteristic.
Controversial origins of the domestic dog
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A D & G Jackalin Crystal Watch and two Hot Diamonds Tiffany box sets are up for grabs in our free prize draw competition.
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More than 70 diurnal mammals have been described, including a number of carnivores such as spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta, common jackal Canis aureus, serval Felis serval, caracal F. caracal, lion Panthera leo, cheetah Acinonyx jubatus (T), and wild dog Lycaon pictus (T), previously considered locally extinct.
'W' National Park, Niger
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The beast of prey skulking back to his lair, the stag quenching his thirst ere retiring to the depths of the forest, the wedge of wild fowl flying with trumpet notes to some distant lake, the vulture hastening in heavy flight to the carrion that night has provided, the crane flapping to the shallows, and the jackal shuffling along to his shelter in the nullah, have each and all their portent to the initiated eye.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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Neelgai, sambar, cheetah, langur, porcupine and rabbit roam in abundance, while hyena, jackal, wild boar and a variety of birds including migratory ones have made Sariska a tourist's delight.
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Oh, would that I were once more a Queen, if only for one little hour, and I would take such a vengeance on those accursed jackals who deserted me in my need; that it should only be spoken of in whispers; those woman, those pigeon-hearted half-breeds who suffered themselves to be overcome! 'and she choked in her wrath.
Allan Quatermain
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Mountain rhebuck, duiker, jackal, mongoose, porcupine and dassie now live in the Reserve.
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Weir said the chief superintendent was fully aware of his activities with sectarian killers such as the late Robin Jackson, alias The Jackal, one of the most notorious loyalist killers of the 1970s.
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Canid rabies is commonly transmitted to cattle via the bite of carnivores such as jackals or dogs in Africa.
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Only five percent of mammals are thought to be socially monogamous, including gibbons, jackals, and tamarins.
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Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
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There was the _ping, ping, ping_, of the mosquitoes, and the piteous wailing shriek of the jackals as they hunted in a pack, and there, too, was the monotonous tramp of the sentry, hour after hour.
Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
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He also established game on the farm - wildebeest, zebra, blesbok, duiker and jackals.
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Some other interesting wildlife here includes giraffe, leopard, cheetah, jackal, blue wildebeest, gemsbok and black rhino.
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The savanna landscape supports a small antelope species called Grimm's duiker, side striped jackals, and rare birds including Denham's bustard.
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These are in effect as follows, viz.: Our domestic dog is derived from a species, one or more, akin to the wolf, the jackal, and the fox; to a group of animals not characterized by great native intelligence, but distinguished for their ferocity and their general untamableness.
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization
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Before long, the scrubby plain has offered kudu, ostriches and a jackal.
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Lower down a crocodile was lying on the bank sunning itself "Pull me out, pull me out!" called the jackal
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
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BRYAN: The jackal is the god of embalming, so he is actually there to protect what is inside the box.
CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2002
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Ventura says he's not seeking re-election because he doesn't want his family subjected to any more sniping from reporters, who he only half-jokingly suggested be required to wear the word jackal on their press passes.
'The Body': So September 10Th
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Attendees can obtain jackalope hunting licenses from the Chamber of Commerce and go gonzo with the crosshairs so long as they remember to refrain from hunting jackalope from midnight to 2 a.m. on June 31.
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There are also sidestriped jackal Canis adustus, puku Kobus vardoni, klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus, and red and blue duikers Cephalophus natalensis and C. monticola.
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
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Carrion is laid out to attract the feathered carnivores, and regular diners include whitenecked ravens, lanner falcons, jackal buzzards, black eagles and cape vultures.
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Canon Rawlinson, in his unhappy version, does not perceive that the Halicarnassian means the jackal and blunders about the hyena.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The easiest solution is to kill hyenas, jackals and leopards with poisoned carcasses.
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“Sha’arhar” is the jackal from the Pehlevi Shagál or Shaghál.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The tent ropes stretch in various directions, and round the whole they put up a hedge or "zareeba" of thorn bushes to keep out the jackals, and to keep in their goats during the night.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns
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The ancient costume of the Makololo consisted of the skin of a lamb, kid, jackal, ocelot, or other small animal, worn round and below the loins: and in cold weather a kaross, or skin mantle, was thrown over the shoulders.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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When you pompously attach yourself, for self elevation purposes, as “the” back scratcher by putting others down, its clear its another of your feeble, (carcass related) insidious Jackal & Hide jibes, you all to often, are compelled to pathetically, and pathologically bring sick attention to yourself.
A Prison of the Mind Two
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Common in the reserve are lion, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus, spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta and jackal Canis aureus.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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Labyrinths of shallow waterways, secret islands and lily-filled lagoons are negotiated by game drive vehicles, light aircraft and the traditional mokoro - a dugout canoe carved from the jackal-berry tree.
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And did not I fear for thy sake, I would not let a single sun arise before making his city a ruined heap wherein raven should croak and howlet hoot, and jackal and wolf harbour and loot; nay I had removed its very stones to the back side of Mount Kaf.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
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Last night I watched a documentary on the Golden Jackals of Africa - dogs nearly identical to Jasper.
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You will also see gemsbok, springbok, eland, blue wildebeest, cheetahs, wild dogs, jackals, bat-eared foxes and leopards.
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Bedouins, who exercise the office of excavators, and sleep hard by in holes like jackals, advance to sell us scarabaei, blue-glass trinkets that are half fossilised, and feet or hands of the dead.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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The profiler is about the equivalent of somebody who divines jackal tracks with a broken twig.
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He had been called a jackal by the papers -- but here were two who bore a clearer title to the name!
The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
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"He's too… too… too afraid you mean," mocked Jackal, his voice suddenly honey-sweet.
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After this, which we call the auspices of the Akut, we take that of the Siarni or female jackal.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II