NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



it when decayed, and then it is only to get the 

 insects, etc., in and under the body. 



" I have seen Manhaar Jackals in the Kalahari 

 often ; they are in droves sometimes. I have seen 

 as many as fourteen, but generally they are in fives 

 and sixes — that is, in the Kalahari. 



" They get from four to six cubs, and breed in 

 holes. I have taken five young ones from a hole in 

 the ground previously made by an ant-bear. The 

 jackal v^hich kills stock is the red jackal with the 

 grey back, and perhaps the all-red jackal, which I 

 have caught by tying a kid at night and setting a 

 trap or traps, in the same way as the greyback 

 jackal is caught." 



Mr. Thomas Lanham also writes on the subject : — 



" Mr. Langdon has sent me the above letter. I 

 can heartily bear out all he says about the Manhaar 

 Jackal. This animal is quite harmless to stock ; 

 any observant farmer will tell you this. A short 

 time ago I had a flock of sheep at an out-station, 

 sleeping out in the open (not in a kraal). At night 

 there were a lot of these Manhaar Jackals staying 

 close about the spot, and although there were small 

 lambs in the flock I did not lose one of them." 



From another letter on the same subject, the 

 News extracts the following : — 



" I am positively certain they do not eat flesh. 

 One sees them ferreting about the ground, looking 

 for beetles, etc., and they do not clear far, and one 

 hears them whistle for their mates. This they 



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