GOLDEN JACKAL
38.
(Canis aureus)
During the period of British rule in the Indian subcontinent, large numbers of British officers found themselves stationed across India. Many of them spent their free time in hunt clubs that used special hounds to pursue jackals. One of the most established was the Ooty or “Ootacamund” meaning “village of huts” founded in 1835. We have two jackals from hunts at the Ooty Hunt Club. This one is from a hunt that took place on the 6th of June 1949.