Jackal coursing
The jackal is, I think, a more difficult animal to kill with hounds than the fox. He does not play the game as the fox does. He is as cunning, as intelligent, as wild, but he is far less sophisticated, and it used to please me to think that perhaps in the chase of the jackal we saw hunting as it was in an earlier phase than that at which it has now arrived in England.
Jackal coursing involves the pursuit of jackals (usually the golden jackal and black-backed jackal) with dogs.
Jackal coursing was an occasional pastime for sportsmen in
British India. English Foxhounds were usually imported to India for the purpose.[2] Due to the comparatively hotter weather, jackal hounds were rarely long lived.[3] Indian jackals were not hunted often in this manner, as they were slower than foxes and could scarcely outrun greyhounds after 200 yards.[4] According to Thomas C. Jerdon, although jackals are easily pulled down by greyhounds and give an excellent run with foxhounds, they are nonetheless cunning animals which will sham death when caught, and will ferociously protect their packmates.[5]
Ceylon as well, though hounds would not attack jackals. Reginald Innes Pocock speculated that this was due to Ceylonese dogs being closely related to the local jackals, and would thus not attack their own kind.[7]
In
Free State.[10] In the western Cape in the early 1900s, dogs bred by crossing foxhounds, lurchers and borzoi were used.[8]
See also
References
- ^ Dale, T. F. (1906). The Fox (Fur, Feather and Fin Series). Longmans, Green, and Co. pp. 181–193.
- ISBN 81-206-1464-X
- ^ a b The living animals of the world; a popular natural history with one thousand illustrations Volume 1: Mammals, by Cornish, C. J., 1858-1906; Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917; Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927; Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, published by New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
- ISBN 1-110-58955-7
- ^ A monograph of the canidae by St. George Mivart, F.R.S, published by Alere Flammam. 1890
- ISBN 0-7864-3407-4
- ^ Fauna of British India: Mammals Volume 2 by R. I. Pocock, printed by Taylor and Francis, 1941
- ^ ISBN 0-19-926151-2
- ISBN 1-4446-3727-4
- ISBN 1-919930-90-6