Jackals, Golden Wolves, and Honey Badgers
Cunning, Courage, and Conflict with Humans
- 266 pages
- English
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Jackals, Golden Wolves, and Honey Badgers
Cunning, Courage, and Conflict with Humans
About this book
This book explores the fascinating and complex lives of the honey badger, the African jackals (black-backed and side-striped), African golden wolves, and Eurasian golden jackals. In recent years, interest in these creatures has grown exponentially, through wildlife documentaries and media clips showing the aggressive, fearless, and tenacious behaviour of the honey badger, with jackals often presented in a supporting role.
Written by renowned journalist and educator Keith Somerville, this accessible volume includes historical narratives, folklore, and contemporary accounts of human–wildlife relationships and conflicts. It traces the evolution of the species; their foraging and diet; the development of their relationships with humans; and their commensal, kleptocratic, and symbiotic relationships with other carnivores, raptors and birds. It also charts the recent expansion in European jackal numbers and ranges, now including as far west as the Netherlands and as far north as Finland.
Blending historical observations by non-scientists, colonial officials, administrators, and early conservationists with contemporary scientific accounts, it presents a new multidisciplinary approach that will interest researchers, scientists, and students in wildlife conservation, human–wildlife relations, zoology, biology, and environmental science.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Glossary of other terms
- Introduction: Why honey badgers and jackals
- 1 Jackals and golden wolves: Dramatis personae
- 2 Origins and evolution of jackals and golden wolves
- 3 From the end of the Pleistocene to the start of the Common Era (CE)
- 4 Jackals and humans in Africa in the pre-colonial era
- 5 The jackals of Eurasia
- 6 Africa from colonisation to 1960
- 7 Black-backed jackals and related species in contemporary Africa
- 8 Honey badgers: Dramatis personae
- 9 Origins, evolution, and history of the honey badger
- 10 Honey badgers in the contemporary world
- Index