The black-backed jackal, also called the silver-backed jackal, is a medium-sized canine native to eastern and southern Africa. These regions are separated by roughly 900 kilometers.
Black-backed jackal
Skull and skeleton
Scent marking
East African black-backed jackal (C. m. schmidti) pups, Tanzania
The Caninae, known as canines, are one of three subfamilies found within the canid family. The other two canid subfamilies are the extinct Borophaginae and Hesperocyoninae. The Caninae includes all living canids and their most recent fossil relatives. Their fossils were first found in North America and dated to the Oligocene era, then spreading to Asia at the end of the Miocene era, some 7 million to 8 million years ago.
Caninae
Image: Wolf on alert
Image: Dhole (Asiatic wild dog) cropped
Image: African wild dog (Lycaon pictus pictus)