What animal was circling the camp?

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The answer is a wolf. As Wilfred Thesiger reports [1]:
In the morning bin Ghabaisha found the tracks of a wolf that had circled our camp.

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[1] Wilfred Thesiger: Arabian Sands (1959). Reprinted in Penguin Travel Library, 1991;
page 235.
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