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The culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), also known as Culpeo zorro, Andean zorro, Andean fox, Paramo wolf, [3] Andean wolf, [4] and colpeo fox, [4] is a species of South American fox. Despite the name, it is not a true fox, but more closely related to wolves and jackals. Its appearance resembles that of foxes due to convergent evolution.
The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the warrah (/ ˈ w ɑː r ə / WAH-rə or / ˈ w ɑː r ɑː / WAH-rah) and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox, warrah fox, or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. [3]
Population sizes range from the Falkland Islands wolf, extinct since 1876, to the domestic dog, which has a worldwide population of over 1 billion. [1] The body forms of canids are similar, typically having long muzzles, upright ears, teeth adapted for cracking bones and slicing flesh, long legs, and bushy tails. [ 2 ]
Natural predators of the guanaco include pumas and the culpeo or Andean fox. [6] Fox predation was unknown until 2007 when predators began to be observed in the Karukinka Reserve in Tierra del Fuego. Scientists attribute this to the unfavourable climatic conditions on the island, which are causing food to become scarce, weakening the animals.
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Culpeo or Andean fox: Ecuador and Peru to the southern regions of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego Lycalopex fulvipes: Darwin's fox: Nahuelbuta National Park (Araucanía Region), the Valdivian Coastal Range (Los Ríos Region) in mainland Chile and Chiloé Island: Lycalopex griseus: South American gray fox or chilla: Argentina and Chile Lycalopex ...
Yeskumaala in the islands around Cape Horn. The Yahgan established many settlements in Tierra del Fuego, temporary but often reused. A significant Yahgan archaeological site from the Megalithic period has been found at Wulaia Bay. C. Michael Hogan has called it the Bahia Wulaia (Dome Middens). [16] The Yahgan domesticated a culpeo known as a ...
The type species is Dusicyon australis, the Falkland Islands wolf. In 1914, Oldfield Thomas established this genus, in which he included the culpeo and other South American foxes. These other canids were removed to Lycalopex by Langguth in 1975. [3] There is still much debate about the classification of Dusicyon cultridens.