A jackal (from Turkish çakal, via Persian shaghal ultimately from Sanskrit sṛgālaḥ) is a member of any of three (sometimes four) small to medium-sized species of the family ...
The Jackal is the main character in the fiction novel The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, which features a storyline centred on a professional assassination attempt on ...
The sandy-colored golden jackal shown here prefers open, grassy plains, while the side-striped jackal lives along water courses with dense undergrowth.