Jackal fights honey badgers for a duiker carcass

This video was captured using an infrared flash camera trap on a macadamia farm near White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa. To record it, I tied down a dead duiker that I found lying in a field (it supposedly died of natural causes). It was already half-eaten by the time I found it and made excellent camera trap bait. On the second day of recording footage, a side-striped jackal decided to challenge a pair of honey badgers for the carcass. This video details the interaction starting from when the jackal enters the frame. Side note - the temperature recorded on the camera trap’s timestamp is definitely much higher than the actual winter night temperature from when it was captured. This might have to do with the batteries warming the camera’s housing after 30 minutes of filming the pair of badgers eating away at the carcass before the jackal arrived.
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