Comparative Foraging Efficiency of Two Sympatric Jackals, Silver-Backed Jackals (Canis mesomelas) and Golden Jackals (Canis aureus), in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Table 1

A summary of the distance travelled per unit time (km/hour) and the foraging efficiency (weight of food consumed per km and per hour) by the two jackals species in the dry and wet seasons.

⁢	Silver-backed jackal			Golden jackal			Silver-backed versus golden jackal
	Dry season	Wet season	value	Dry season	Wet season	value	Dry season ( value)	Wet season ( value)
km of foraging	128.45	110.85		109.36	158.55
Hours of foraging	79.65	59.63		68.90	97.43
km/hr of foraging	1.61	1.86	0.7664 ()	1.59	1.63	0.5068 ()	0.2911 ()	0.3266 ()
Grams of food consumed per km (g/km)	18.68	59	0.2268; ()	52.69	96.88	0.1335 ()	0.1073 ()
Grams of food consumed per hour of foraging (g/hr)	30.12	109.67	0.1841 ()	83.63	157.65	0.1026 ()

Note. All statistical tests were performed using Mann–Whitney test. -values are given in the brackets. indicates significant difference.