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Animal Fact of the Day The maned wolf is the largest canid in South America. It is also the tallest wild canid in the world, its stilt-like legs a useful adaptation for spying prey over the tall grasslands where it lives. Despite its name, the maned wolf is not a wolf at all, nor is it a fox, coyote, or dog. It is the only member of the Chrysocyon genus, making it a truly unique animal, not closely related to any other living canid. One hypothesis for this is that the maned wolf is the last surviving species of the Pleistocene Extinction, which wiped out all other large canids from the continent. EDIT: So apparently, I need to clear something up- this animal is real, the picture is real (taken by Sean Crane in Brazil), and so is the information. If they weren’t, I wouldn’t be calling it a fact.

Animal Fact of the Day

The maned wolf is the largest canid in South America. It is also the tallest wild canid in the world, its stilt-like legs a useful adaptation for spying prey over the tall grasslands where it lives. Despite its name, the maned wolf is not a wolf at all, nor is it a fox, coyote, or dog. It is the only member of the Chrysocyon genus, making it a truly unique animal, not closely related to any other living canid. One hypothesis for this is that the maned wolf is the last surviving species of the Pleistocene Extinction, which wiped out all other large canids from the continent.

EDIT: So apparently, I need to clear something up- this animal is real, the picture is real (taken by Sean Crane in Brazil), and so is the information. If they weren’t, I wouldn’t be calling it a fact.

(Source: pricklepear)

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    What a beautiful creature.
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    I found it. This...it. The rare oddity. You are my spirit animal, bitch.
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    It looks like someone tried to cross a deer and a fox, and ended up getting this.
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