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(A Friday, Jun 27, 1958
AAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
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Is That So?
BylUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
Damascus Damascus is
taid to be ie oldest continu
jusIjP inhabited city in the
svorld, and it is definitely one
of the most Beautiful.
Its beaufy is due as much to
Its surroundings as to its an
ient buildings and its more
than 200 mosques. It stands
on the northern edge of a fer
tile plain, close to the foot of
the Anti - Lebanon range.
Small, cold rivtrs run through
and by it to fan out over the
plain that is dotted with
Ecores of villages.
Though the entirt area, in
cluding the city, is like an im
mense garden nd orchard,
densely populated Damas
cus itself has over 300,000
people I had clear re
minder of how close this seat
of civilization is to the wild.
We were driving back to
the city when we stopped to
admire a law sunset view
from a little knoll on the
plain's edge. We had been
there maytoe five minutes
when the guide drew my at
tention to a dog standing on a
nearby hillock. He was look
ing down the slope, ears
pricked up and switching his
bushy tail.
"Jackal," the fuide said,
and it was. We got a good look
at another a little later in the
lights of the car and we also
heardetheir coyote - like cry
which few domestic dogs can
duplicate. They have a dark,
yellowish - gray coat, stand
maybeQ15 inches at the shoul
der and measure about two
feet fftm nos tip to base of
the tail.
Common in
As f5r our luck in seeing
one, they are so common in
the Damascus area it would
have been strange if we
hadn't.
Though great carrion eat
ers, they vary their diet more
readily than the hyena. They
hunt singly or in packs. Any
game, from a mouse to sheep
will do, but they have a sweet
tooth for fruit of almost any
kind, which rather takes the
pressure off stock raisers.
In fact, it may well be that
th, fox of the story of the fox
and the grapes was actually
g jackal instead.
They are easily tamed, and
since they interbreed readily
with domesticated dogs, and
are still to be found in south
eastern Europe, it is highly
likely that many of the dogs
we hav in the states have a
jackal or two somewhere in
their family trees.
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