For Release: February 14th, 2000
Life is hard for the animal inhabitants of the East African plains, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Ngorongoro Crater in northern Tanzania, where lions, cheetahs, wildebeest and Thomson gazelles are part of a diverse wildlife population residing within the confines of the crater walls.
Noteworthy among the Ngorongoro denizens are jackals. In fact, the crater is one of the few places where three of the world's four jackal species are found in co-habitation. Nature presents a look at these tenacious creatures in "Jackals of the African Crater," Sunday, Feb. 27 at 8/7 p.m. CT on KET and Wednesday, March 1 at 8/7 p.m. CT on KET2.
Related to dogs, jackals are by no means the largest, strongest or fastest of the crater inhabitants, but they are wily survivors. Facing the triple threat of starvation, predators and each other, the three species of jackal in the crater--black-backed, side-striped, and golden jackal--compete within their own species for survival. The program follows members of the three species through the seasons as they struggle to raise and feed themselves and their pups.
Nature "Jackals of the African Crater" is a co-production of WNET/New York and the BBC. The program is closed-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Viewers can find out more about programming on KET by visiting the KET Web site at http://www.ket.org, a Kentucky.com affiliate.
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