![]() This set consists of a 20+ series of this female jackal, gathering her pigeon 'breakfast' at Kalkheuwel waterhole in Etosha National Park, Namibia. I was really amazed by how little disturbance the kills caused amongst the other pigeons, you see one flying in the foreground, but that was an exception to the rule. Dann erfahre in diesem Beitrag was man bei Problemen mit JPEG Jackal PRO unter iOS oder Android Geräten tun kann. ![]() Well, this little lady DID have an aim: her walking around soothed the pigeons drinking at this waterhole, thinking the jackal was just another innocent visitor to the waterhole.Īs soon as a pigeon was stupid enough to dip not just its beak, but its head into the water, it was 'bingo' for the jackal: we witnessed two kills in less than ten minutes!Īfter once again tightening its jaws around her prey, the jackal moves away from the waterhole, back to the same spot where she finished the first bird. She was running around in aimless cirles, or so it seemed. Our first impression: "what is that jackal doing?". It wasn't too busy: 'just' antelope, some birds, and a single jackal. We arrived early at Kalkheuwel waterhole, just after sunrise. Shot late morning (eleven-ish), from a great distance, hence the not-supersharp quality, caused by heat radiation. 65-70% of the original, showing only the 'action bit'. This shot is a crop of the previous image, appr. They stayed around sulking, and ran of with the remains the jackal left behind. He'd evidently made the "it's mine!" decision.Įven though the vultures weren't much smaller than the jackal (and there were five of them!), they were duly impressed by the jackal and let their prize go. Like in a good bedtime story, the next chapter starts with 'and then'.Īnd then, from over 500m away, we saw a jackal approaching the scene. It didn't take long before the second 'tawny' arrived, its touchdown was an impressive sight enough!īut the poor eagles weren't left at peace: a group of vultures decided they had more rights to this tasty snack and chased them away. When we pulled over and grabbed the binoculars, we could see it was feeding on a smallish animal (a mongoose, a ground squirrel, or something). There's a longer story behind the scene you see here: we stopped along one of the main roads in Etosha National Park, because we spotted a Tawny Eagle sitting on the ground. Also very creative in its hunting and fighting techniques, I'll upload pics from another scene to illustrate its cunning later. the Namibian Skeleton coast), that hunts as well in groups as alone, and is not scared easily. Don't expect this to appear on the company's films, however.If you take a closer look at my photostream, and especially the 'Namibian Wildlife' set, you can see that I've grown quite fond of the jackal.Īn animal that easily adapts to extreme environments (e.g. The long version could be seen on the company's website until 2017. Also seen on Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life, Easiest Game Show Ever, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Monarch, and the TV movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, among others. On Easiest Game Show Ever, the jingle is slightly re-arranged, with three notes instead of two.Īvailability: Common.Music/Sounds: A two-note guitar tune and a voice softly going "Yeah!". On animated shorts done by AOK (a successor to Animation Domination High-Def), the logo is still on a white background.įX/SFX: 2D animation against a CGI background.A short version exists where the jackal walks into the center of the screen and freezes in a different position with its left front paw raised.It sometimes shares the screen with other logos. Explore this photo album by Darwins Jackal on Flickr This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to help show content that is more relevant to your interests.The jackal freezes in position as the background continues animating. A pair of white pupil-less animated eyes appear on one of the trunks, which belongs to a black silhouetted jackal as it jumps out of the woods onto a wavy gray background and trots to the center of the screen, as the words "THE JACKAL GROUP" in small black lettering appear from underneath. Logo: We begin in an animated black-and-white woodland scene, with black tree trunks on a grayish background. Nicknames: "The Jackal", "The Black Jackal", "Jackal in the Woods", "Din-Dih! Yeah!"
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