Facts of Black-backed Jackal - Predation Management South Africa

Facts

These animals are known to cause considerable livestock losses and are not only responsible for catching smaller and weaker stock such as lambs but will also kill large sheep. They will even attack cows that are lying down to calve and will start feeding at the calf as it emerges or at the cow’s udder and inside flanks of the hind legs. Live calves up to one week old can also fall prey to the jackal.

Published in Facts
October 12, 2018

Demography and morphometry of black-backed jackals in South Africa and Namibia

Human-carnivore conflict is a global phenomenon. Therefore, in a country like South Africa predation management is a necessary but sometimes controversial activity and the role of the government is as much to provide oversight as it is to save livestock and protect wildlife.

Study by HO De Waal, University of Free State