For decades this has been called a Golden Jackal in Africa.

Now it has been renamed to a Golden Wolf and is considered a 'new' species...

I believe here we just call them coyotes.

The resemblance is striking.

A DNA test between then and 'yotes would be interesting.

No kidding. so would a behavioral analysis. Coyotes are a breed unto themselves when it comes to how they are raised and socialized...

I don't know how jackals do it.

Now all the SCI guys will have to scramble back to Africa to check the new species off their lists :-)

yeah was reading where they got seperated from the European golden jackle earlier this week.....figured they were the same cause they largely looked the same though there are some physical and behaviorl differences.....course they look alike along with looking like coyotes as they all share a similar type of habitat and though it looks simple its pretty damn good camo for sneaking up on critters in grasslands....

Nope,killed a schitload of "Golden Jackals/Wolves" here in New Mexico.

Just wait......being it is now a "wolf" it will fall on some state protection list

Thats what I was thinking, and you'll be able to buy little plush replicas in the Jo'burg airport...

Funny but true

Just hung a rug of one here in Idaho. I am looking at it as I type. My wife took it when we all went over in 2011. Her weapon was a Land Cruiser.

Too much "gun".

Yeah, I bet it WAY over penetrated.

Geno

Land Cruiser in Idaho?

Grocery getter.

be funny if someone compared the DNA to the North American coyote, and discovered a direct match

Clue in to "when we went over"... That said, yes, many old Land Cruiser here in north Idaho including a far bit of FJ-45's.