HYENAS, JACKALS, WILD DOGS, Etc. 
The side-striped jackal ( Canis adustus) is a larger and heavier animal 
than the black -backed species, but does not differ materially from it in 
its habits and mode of life. The range of the side -striped jackal extends 
from a little to the north of the equator to Zululand. When I was last in 
East Africa, a case occurred near Nairobi on the farm of Mr H. H. Heatley, 
of a native child being attacked by a jackal. The little sufferer — a mere 
baby — had been left by its mother in the shade of a bush whilst she was 
working in an adjoining field, when in broad daylight it was attacked by 
a jackal, and would doubtless soon have been killed had not the mother, 
attracted by its screams, run to its assistance and driven its assailant off. 
Before it was rescued the child had, however, been severely bitten by the 
jackal, which I am inclined to think belonged to the side-striped species, 
though of this I am not certain. 
In addition to the two species of jackals already enumerated, which 
are the best known of the group, four other species are also found in 
Africa, namely, the Egyptian jackal ( Canis lupaster), the Morocco jackal 
( Canis anthus ), the variegated jackal ( Canis variegatus) of Abyssinia and 
Somaliland, and the pygmy jackal ( Canis mengesi ), which appears only 
to occur in the last-named territory; but as in their habits all these 
animals very closely resemble one another and the more generally known 
members of the group to which they belong, no detailed description of 
them is necessary. 
In addition to the jackals, a small fox ( Canis camd) is found in South- 
West Africa, whilst the pretty little fennec fox ( Otocyon megalotis) inhabits 
the same area in the south, and is also found in the semi-desert regions of 
North-East Africa. The Cama or silver fox, living in countries where 
the winter nights are very cold, grows a thick, soft, silver-grey coat, 
and its skin is much appreciated by the natives of the various Bechuana 
tribes and used in the making of fur rugs or karosses. It is a much smaller 
and weaker animal than the black -backed jackal, and of a less enterprising 
nature, never killing anything but small mammals and birds. It is solitary 
in its habits. The pretty little, large-eared fennecs are, on the contrary, 
very sociable, living in burrows in small colonies. They are very harmless 
little creatures, living almost exclusively on ants and other insects. Their 
teeth are very small and weak. Equally inoffensive and harmless is the 
curious aardwolf or maned jackal ( Proteles cristatus ), which is an inhabitant 
both of South-Western and North-Eastern Africa. In appearance the 
aardwolf looks very much like a very small striped hyena, as it is much 
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