black-backed jackal

English

A black-backed jackal.

Noun

black-backed jackal (plural black-backed jackals)

1. A jackal of species Canis mesomelas, which inhabits the southernmost and central-eastern regions of the African continent.

Synonyms

• (Canis mesomelas): red jackal, silver-backed jackal

Hyponyms

• (Canis mesomelas): Cape jackal (Canis mesomelas mesomelas), East African jackal (Canis mesomelas schmidti)

Translations

See also: Black-backed jackal

Canis mesomelas

• Catalan: xacal de llom negre
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑背胡狼 (hēibèi húláng)

• Dutch: zadeljakhals (nl) m, zwartrugjakhals m
• Esperanto: nigradorsa ŝakalo
• Finnish: vaippasakaali
• French: chacal à chabraque (fr) m
• Greek: μελανόραχο τσακάλι n (melanóracho tsakáli)
• Hungarian: panyókás sakál
• Japanese: セグロジャッカル (seguro jakkaru), 背黒ジャッカル (seguro jakkaru)
• Korean: 검은등자칼 (geomeundeungjakal)
• Latvian: melnmuguras šakālis m
• Lithuanian: juodnugaris šakalas m
• Malay: jakal berbelakang hitam
• Navajo: mąʼii bighą́ąʼgi hadzíjiní
• Russian: чепра́чный шака́л m (čepráčnyj šakál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црнолеђи шакал m

  Roman: crnoleđi šakal m

• Spanish: chacal de lomo negro m, chacal de gualdrapa m
• Vietnamese: chó rừng lưng đen

Further reading

• black-backed jackal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Canis mesomelas on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Canis mesomelas on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons