LONDON: A new DNA study has showed that the “golden jackals” of East Africa, which were long considered by scientists as jackals, are wolves.
For a long time, researchers and scientists thought that the jackals from Eurasia and East Africa’s golden jackals are of the same species.
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s researcher Dr. Klaus-Peter Koepfli told the Guardian that the new study has revealed that the two species from Africa and Eurasia are not as close to each other as perceived.
