Black Backed Jackal

Canis mesomelas Schreber 1775

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Canis mesomelas (Black-backed Jackal) is a species of mammal in the family Canidae. It is found in the Afrotropics. It is an omnivore.

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
Definition: automatically added during harvest
Comment: Auto-added during harvest #1048. A human needs to edit this.
Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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EOL has data for 56 attributes, including:

ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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fossorial and/or ground dwelling only
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/groundDwelling
- Definition: An organism that spends most of its time on the ground or underground.
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Pliocene Epoch
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Pliocene
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region
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Namibia
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3355338
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motility
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33596
- Definition: ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process
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actively mobile
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile
- Definition: Organisms that move habitually, of their own volition.
- Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html
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number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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52

Black-backed Jackal includes 2 children:

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