jackal
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Each animal was roughly the size of a jackal, but their bodies suggest they were adapted to hunt in different ways.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
I suppose she is referring to an alley cat or perhaps a jackal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
England's back row of Ben Earl, Tom Curry and Ben Curry posed a significant jackal threat, spreading across the width of the pitch, meaning one was always on hand to disrupt the breakdown.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
Dead animals littered the side of the road; deer, raccoons, something that looked like a purple jackal, a Chupacabra or two, what looked like a werewolf, and at least one low-flying turkey vulture.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024
The serval was a spotted animal about the size of a jackal.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
As North Korea’s hagiographers rewrote history, they held American missionaries responsible for the country’s misfortunes, while state-sponsored novels, plays and museums depicted them as jackals who subjected Koreans to vile human experiments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
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
Though they are genetically closer to jackals, they convergently evolved to resemble gray wolves.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
“Come out, Bliksem! You’ve got some tasty jackals to find!”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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