The mystery of the Chinese jackal is compared to be stronger than the tiger!

Jackal is a very mysterious animal, maybe many people have not seen it, but more or less have heard some folk stories about this animal.

Yunnan, a province located in the south of China, has a warm and humid climate, so it is one of the provinces with the richest biodiversity in this country, it also owns a lot of precious animals. rare and strange.

Located in the northwest of Yunnan Province, the Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve on the west bank of the Nujiang River is the largest nature reserve in Yunnan Province.

Currently, there are 582 species of vertebrates in the reserve, including 20 species of first-class protected animals, 47 species of second-level protected animals and countless other species.

Jackal is a very mysterious animal, maybe many people have not seen it, but more or less have heard some folk stories about this animal.

In the 'Four Great Beasts' in China, jackals are ranked before wolves, tigers, and leopards, they are always considered a symbol of greed and cruelty.

And the Gaoligong mountain reserve is one of the popular habitats of this animal. When park staff were sorting through surveillance data recovered from field infrared cameras, they spotted a pack of jackals with up to eight members.

Although jackals can form larger groups, their numbers are increasingly sparse, so a group of eight jackals is considered acceptable for modern times.

The jackal is a medium-sized dog native to Asia. They look a lot like wolves and dogs, but if you look closely you can see the difference.

Compared with wolves and domestic dogs, jackals are slightly smaller in size, with a shorter and narrower muzzle, a bit like a fox's mouth, so jackals look more cunning than wolves and dogs.

In the world, there are 11 subspecies of jackals and 5 species living on the border of China, namely: Chinese jackal, Sichuan jackal, West Asian jackal, East Asian jackal and Kashmir jackal. There is some variation in coat color between the different jackals, but their overall appearance is reddish brown, with a black mouth and tail tip.

Jackals are very sociable animals, in the past there were many jackals and in large groups. A pack of jackals is usually led by the strongest and most experienced leader. It has the highest status in the jackal group and is the one who makes decisions in big and small matters of the pack.

Jackals are very sociable animals.

For example, the group of 8 jackals found in the Gaoligong Mountain Reserve was observed to be a very orderly pack during movement as well as foraging. They are very good at hunting their prey, usually by siege.

The number of wild boar in many provinces in China has skyrocketed over the years. These wild boars destroy crops in large numbers, causing considerable damage to farmers.

For example, from 2014 to 2020, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province was harassed by wild boar, directly causing more than 120 million crops to be damaged. Wild boars proliferated so much that humans were forced to form hunting teams to control their numbers.

But maybe many people do not know that jackals are natural enemies of wild boars, where there are jackals, the number of wild boars will be controlled, because they are known as "enemies of wild boars". ".

The jackal is the natural enemy of the wild boar.

Jackals are small in size, weighing only about 15-32kg when mature, but they live in groups and tend to hunt medium and large prey.

In the forest, wild boars are the primary prey of many large carnivores, which include jackals, and wild boars make up a large proportion of the jackal's diet.

The jackal is agile and good at running, once it finds a wild boar, it will chase fiercely under the command of the leader. They mainly use the method of encircling and destroying, chasing and encircling the wild boar from all directions, then rush to bite and drag the wild boar, and finally, the leading jackal will bite the throat lock.

Because jackals have a great influence on the development of wild boar populations, they eat wild boar and indirectly protect crops, they are also considered 'beneficial animals' in agriculture.

Jackals eat wild boar and indirectly protect crops.

In the dog family, jackals are not as famous as wolves, but those who have faced them will know that jackals are much more aggressive than wolves, which is also reflected in their eating habits.

After capturing the prey, the members of the jackal pack will frantically bite the prey, with the scene looking very cruel, a wild boar can be cut into pieces by them in a very short time.

Jackals are at the top of the 'four great beasts' in China, and in India there are even rumors that they can deal with ferocious Bengal tigers. Jackals often take advantage of their herd nature to attack the tiger until the tiger is exhausted and is bitten to death by the jackal.

Jackals are highly adaptable animals, tolerant of cold and heat, except for some harsh regions, jackals can almost adapt to most of China's topographical environments.

But relatively speaking, jackals prefer to live in the hills in the south. Since the 1980s, jackal populations have plummeted, and their disappearance in the forest has paralleled that of species such as tigers and leopards.

Jackals are highly adaptable animals, tolerant of cold and heat.

In the 1980s and 1990s, jackals disappeared rapidly, and in the years that followed, it was almost impossible to find traces of jackals in the forest.

Until 2013, an infrared camera set up at the Heishuihe Nature Reserve in Sichuan captured the silhouette of a jackal on a mountain animal trail. After that, many pictures of jackals were taken in China. Thanks to the ecological protection achievements, the jackal population also began to slowly recover.