Preparing a field-season is a matter of repairing equipment. If possible, also of acquiring some new items. In this new series I will...

What the cameras had recorded during the night of arrival was the main intrigue in the morning of Day 2. But even before the material was...

Living side-by-side with a jackal family comes at a cost. The obvious reason is that jackals do not like humans living close to their...

There are many ways in which human affairs affect animal life – as all life on the Planet. We know about long-term events like the...

The flooding of 8-9 June made people of the nearby villages worried about my father. His camp was the only one by the river. It could...

The foraging evolutionary direction taken by jackals has made them human neighbours. This in turn demanded from them adaptation to...

Chorus howling which was the topic of the previous blog, belongs to what my father calls ‘long-range vocalization.’ This is when jackals...

It is their voices that turn humans against jackals – not what they actually do. We have been repeatedly asking people of Stanevo and...

Of the three families along the bank, the nearest is the one my father calls Topolite. As described in the previous blog, the family’s...

In the eyes of the members of Boldy’s family – and principally of the three senior adults – anyone using the bait-site besides them was a...

Among all the various visitors appearing on the stage of the bait-site, a badger certainly stood out. This badger, named Gosho by my...

Of the neighbours who were occasionally met at the bait-site, or on the connecting path (the Eastern Staircase), we have so far mentioned...

Rodents In the summer, jackals appeared largely uninterested in rodents, yet the rodents chose to err on the side of caution. They knew...

While the jackals never crossed the red line prohibiting stealing from the tent, there were other neighbours who were far from such noble...

In recent years, all fishermen (my father included) have been complaining of very hot summers. That of 2024 was officially declared to...

Food is a primary medium through which messages are related between family members (another one is vocalization of which later on). As we...

In the previous blog, Rule No 1 was formulated like this: when approaching the pile of food (the ‘bowl’), one’s face must be towards...

They are about how to be safe while eating from human waste. To understand the rules, we need to understand in turn how a dump (in our...

‘Chaperoning’ is my father’s term for adult jackals (senior or junior) when they teach bait-site order to the young. This is a critical...

Despite existing hunting pressure, the family successfully keeps its size. Year after year (since 2018 when the first camera-trap started...