The black-backed jackal is a medium-sized canine native to eastern and southern Africa. It is a monogamous and territorial animal, and they are omnivores which feed on invertebrates, such as beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, termites, millipedes, spiders, and scorpions. They also feed on mammals, such as rodents, hares, and young antelopes up to the size of topi calves, carrion, birds, lizards and snakes.
The honey badger is widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. It is mostly solitary, but has also been sighted in Africa to hunt in pairs during the breeding season in May. It uses old burrows of aardvark, warthog and termite mounds and is a skilled digger, able to dig tunnels into hard ground in 10 minutes. It accesses a large part of its food by digging it out of burrows. It often raids beehives in search of both bee larvae and honey. It also feeds on insects, frogs, tortoises, turtles, lizards, rodents, snakes, birds and eggs. It also eats berries, roots and bulbs.
The bat-eared fox has a disjointed range of distribution across the arid and semi-arid regions of Eastern and Southern Africa. They are commonly found in short grasslands, as well as the more arid regions of the savannahs, along woodland edges, and in open acacia woodlands. They are considered the only truly insectivorous canid, with a marked preference for harvester termites. When this particular species of termite is not available, their opportunistic diet allows a wide variety of food items to be taken: they can consume other species of termites, other arthropods such as ants, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, millipedes, moths, scorpions, spiders, and rarely birds, birds' eggs and chicks, small mammals, reptiles, and fungi. Berries, seeds, and wild fruit also are consumed.
