He howls, looks like a wolf wolf and trots through Vienna. Golden jackals are conquering more and more areas in the urban jungle.
“My foresters have certainly seen him – and I can absolutely trust their instincts,” assures Vienna forest manager Andreas Januskovecz, when asked by “Krone”, who in turn was confronted by readers with sightings of a “strange fox” and “strange fox”. Wolf”. .
In fact, the golden jackal – also called Canis aureus in Latin zoological terms – is likely to become more and more comfortable in the areas of the urban jungle. Experts at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, most notably the Institute for Wildlife Biology and Game Management with project manager Jennifer Hatlauf, have long followed the trail of the shy guy who trots to us from the Balkans across the Pannonian lowlands.
Especially in the south of Vienna
Recent sightings of the shy roar are concentrated in the so-called Maurer Forest in Liesing. To track down the golden jackal in the Vienna Woods, local jackal researchers are now increasingly using megaphones to let the nocturnal quadrupeds hear a sound recording of a calling animal at dusk. “The golden jackals are usually very happy to respond. We usually only wait a few minutes for an answer, and when we get one, it’s confirmation of our presence,” biologists say.
Incidentally, no hiker has to worry about being eaten with skin and hair. Because the European jackals, with African specimens only fundamentally related, prefer small mammals, berries, mushrooms and other similar foods in the green spruce.
Source: Krone
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