jackal
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I suppose she is referring to an alley cat or perhaps a jackal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Though the creature is sometimes referred to as the Falklands fox, the warrah did not physically resemble a fox or wolf, but rather a coyote or jackal.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2024
Despite the Ivy League imprimatur, the cartoonist was still happy when people called him “the retching jackal guy,” a reference to his Mad illustration showing that animal mid-vomit.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2023
“Really,” he said in a video interview promoting the exhibition, “I feel like I’m an outsider. I’m really an oddball guy who managed to, like a jackal, eat whatever the pigs leave behind.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
“The senior wife was a hyena with many children, and the junior was a skinny jackal with only one little boy.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Young ospreys who do not return might have fallen prey to crocodiles and jackals, or have been blown out in to the Atlantic, he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
The animals, also known as the plains wolf and listed as vulnerable, are smaller than the stronger Himalayan wolf and can be mistaken for other species such as jackals.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
The kibbutz had a local pub, but there was little else to do at night other than stargaze and listen to jackals howling in the desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Though they are genetically closer to jackals, they convergently evolved to resemble gray wolves.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
While around us, the intruders scavenge like jackals.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
