What is Black-backed jackal?
{{Speciesbox | name = ''Canis mesomelas'' | fossil_range = [[Pliocene]] - recent | image = Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas mesomelas) 2.jpg | image_caption = ''C. m. mesomelas''<br>[[Etosha National Park]], [[Namibia]] | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite iucn | author = Hoffmann, M. | title = ''Canis mesomelas'' | volume = 2014 | page = e.T3755A46122476 | date = 2014 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T3755A46122476.en }}</ref> | genus = Canis | species = mesomelas | authority = [[Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber|Schreber]], 1775 | subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision = 2 subspecies, see [[#Subspecies|text]] | range_map = Lupulella mesomelas subspecies range.png | range_map_caption = Black-backed jackal range, with ''C. m. mesomelas'' in blue and ''C. m. schmidti'' in red }} The '''black-backed jackal''' (''Canis mesomelas'' or ''Lupulella mesomelas'') is a [[canine]] that comes from eastern and southern [[Africa]]. The black-backed jackal lives in [[South Africa]], [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]], and [[Zimbabwe]], [[Kenya]], [[Somalia]], [[Djibouti]], [[Eritrea]], and [[Ethiopia]]. It is a [[least concern]] species. It is still killed because, it attacks farm animals and it carries [[rabies]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/3755/46122476 |author=Hoffmann, M. |date=2014 |title=Canis mesomelas}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgAMbNSt8ikC&pg=PA577 |author=Wozencraft, C. W. |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-8018-8221-0|title=Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference|publisher=JHU Press }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Canids]] [[Category:Mammals of Africa]] {{biology-stub}}