Golden jackal (Canis aureus) in the Czech Republic: the first record of a live animal and its long-term persistence in the colonized habitat

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/16:10332275 RIV/00216208:11620/16:10332275

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.641.10946" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.641.10946</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.641.10946" target="_blank" >10.3897/zookeys.641.10946</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Golden jackal (Canis aureus) in the Czech Republic: the first record of a live animal and its long-term persistence in the colonized habitat

Original language description

A golden jackal (Canis aureus) individual was recorded similar to 40 km east of Prague in the Czech Republic. It is the first record of a living golden jackal in the country; up to now several individuals have been recorded but all of them were either shot dead or killed by a vehicle. The observed animal was documented by camera traps set up for research of carnivore diversity in different habitats in the study area. It was first photographed on 19 June 2015, and in total there were 57 records made by 12 traps until 24 March 2016 when the animal was still present in the area. Forty-nine of the 57 records were made in a shrubby grassland over an area of similar to 100 ha, 39% of sightings were during the day and 61% in the night. There were two distinct peaks in the circadian activity of the animal, from 4 to 10 a.m., and from 6 p.m. to midnight. We also review the verified records of the golden jackal in the Czech Republic, some of which were only published in local hunting magazines. However, the observation reported in this paper represents the first evidence of a long-term occurrence in Europe of the same golden jackal individual, that persisted for at least nine months and over winter, northwest of Hungarian-Austrian border where the population has been known to reproduce.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ZooKeys

ISSN

1313-2989

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2016

Issue of the periodical within the volume

641

Country of publishing house

BG - BULGARIA

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

151-163

UT code for WoS article

000391091500005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85007296433