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🐺Falkland Islands wolf

Dusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792)

Фолклендський вовк, антарктичний вовк або фолклендська лисиця (Dusicyon australis) — хижий ссавець родини псових (Canidae), представник вимерлого роду Dusicyon. Мешкав на Фолклендських островах. Вовків звинуватили у вбивстві овець, але невідомо, чи вони це робили. Останній фолклендський вовк помер у 1876 році. Ймовірно, цей вид харчувався пінгвінами, тюленями та рослинністю. Найімовірніше, предки фолклендського вовка потрапили на острови по крижаному мосту, який колись з'єднував материк Південна Америка і острови.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
9
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≈ a third of your weight
Also called
Falkland Island wolf, Falklands Wolf
Conservation status
EXExtinct

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Key measurements
Body mass
21 kg
Body length
0.96 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5.24 years
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EX

This animal is extinct

Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2015. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.

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Everything we know about the Falkland Islands wolf

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
21 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
0.96 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
5.24 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Generation length
5.38 yearsestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
72 daysestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Litter size
about 4estimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixedestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
21 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Falkland Islands wolf yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyCanidae
  6. ›genusDusicyon
  7. ›speciesDusicyon australis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyCanidae
  4. genusDusicyon
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyCanidae
  14. genusDusicyon
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warm-blooded animals100%
In other languages
Falklandfuchs (de), Dusicyon australis (es), Wilczak falklandzki (pl), 포클랜드늑대 (ko), שועל מאלוויני (he), Loup des Falkland (fr) … and 25 more languages

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