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Post by Peter on Apr 16, 2005 14:04:47 GMT
The last Falkland Islands Wolf has believed to be killed in 1876 at Shallow Bay, in the Hill Cove Canyon, West Falkland. For more information you can visit the new information page on this species: Falkland Islands Wolf - Dusicyon australis (16-04-2005)It includes also a drawing of this animal made by me!  Image by Peter Maas. Copyright © Recently Extinct Animals, 2005. The drawing is of the Falkland Islands Wolf specimen in the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, in Leiden, the Netherlands. |
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Post by Shadow on Apr 16, 2005 16:37:01 GMT
This is the only full species of Canids which extinct in recent times.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2005 10:15:50 GMT
Wow ! Very nice pic' !  The fur looks very realistic, my mammals allways look like they would be naked. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2005 15:52:33 GMT
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Post by Shadow on Apr 19, 2005 16:32:33 GMT
A really nice page, Noisi
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Post by Peter on Apr 21, 2005 10:40:28 GMT
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Post by Peter on Apr 21, 2005 10:42:45 GMT
And you can get the striping (hairs) in the drawing by drawing a lot of stripes in different colours.
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Post by another specialist on May 23, 2005 3:41:31 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 23, 2005 3:44:49 GMT
Range First Described By Kerr, 1792 Taxonomy Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: Dusicyon Species: australis Physical Attributes Shoulder Height: 24 in. (60 cm) Head and Body Length: ? Tail Length: ? Weight: ? Life Information Gestation: ? Litter size: ? Age at sexual maturity: Male: ? Female: ? Life Span: ? Status Extinct Also Known As Warrah Antarctic Wolf ![]() www.lioncrusher.com/images/falklandislandwolf.jpg[/img] Falkland Island Wolf (Dusicyon australis) Information The Falkland Island wolf lived on Falkland Island, an island off the coast of Argentina, in South America. It is believed to be extinct; only 11 specimens remain today, scattered in museums around the world. One warrah lived in the London zoo in England in 1868, but lived only a few years. Since the introduction of cattle to the island by Spanish settlers in the early 1700's, they had been persecuted. They were easily killed in large numbers, being lured to the settlers by a piece of meat in the had, then stabbed with a knife. Sheep farmers laid poison baits. It is unknown whether or not the warrah offered any real threat to the farmer's' herds. Darwin visited the island in 1833 in his ship the Beagle. He knew then that the population of the warrah was going downhill, and predicted its extinction. In 1839, the government offered a bounty on the warrah. Fur trappers killed the warrah in massive numbers, as its thick, dense fur became very fashionable. The last known wild warrah was shot in 1876, 43 years after Darwin visited the island. What is known about the warrah exists from the 11 known specimens in museums, and accounts of Sailors visiting the island. The first description of the warrah came from a sailor on the HMS Warfare, which visited the island in 1689. It stood about 24 inches (60 cm) high at the shoulder, had brownish-grey fur with black ears and a paler underbody. It resembled a wolf, but had shorter legs. It had a broad skull with small ears. They were said to bark just like a domestic dog. The coat was extremely dense and brownish-red in color. It had an agouti effect - yellowish with black tips, darker along the back. The neck and the legs were yellowish-brown with lighter-colored belly, throat and lips. The ears were grey, and the tail, which was a darker brown than the body, became more black toward the tip until ending in a distinctive white tip. It is unknown what the warrah ate, but it is believed that they ate penguins, ground nesting birds and vegetation. Since they were the only predatory mammal on the tiny island, food was not hard to get. Nothing is known about the warrahs reproductive or social behavior. It is interesting to know that their genus name, Dusicyon, means "Foolish dog" in Greek ("Dusi" = foolish, "cyon" = dog). www.lioncrusher.com/animal.asp?animal=16 |
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Post by another specialist on May 23, 2005 3:49:06 GMT
This canine, which looked more like a fox than a wolf, was the only land mammal of the Falkland Islands. It ate marine birds. It was first discovered in 1690, but was only described officially in 1792. Charles Darwin, who observed this animal during his voyage aboard the Beagle ( 1833), predicted that this animal would soon become extinct. Unfortunately, history would confirm his prediction, since the last individual was killed in 1876. The Warrah. During the first half of the 19th century, many Warrahs were killed for their fur, which was sold in the United States. Around 1860, Scottish shepherds brought their herds to these islands. As they saw it, the Warrah was becoming a horrifying predator capable of destroying their herds. They set fire to the brushwood, laid poisoned baits and even went so far as to accuse the animal of being a vampire in order to justify its eradication. Once again, a predator paid a high price for man's stupidity. Only 11 skins or skeletons of this animal remain in museums, whose numbers did not appear to be limited at the beginning of the 19th century. The presence of this animal on islands that are located 400 km from the continent remains a mystery. www.naturalis.nl/300pearls/default.asp |
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Post by another specialist on Aug 5, 2005 9:01:20 GMT
Dusicyon australis australis from West Falklands Islands ? Dusicyon australis darwini from East Falklands Islands ? planet-mammiferes.org/ |
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Post by Peter on Aug 16, 2005 12:46:29 GMT
And when it comes to Western Falkland Island Wolf Dusicyon australis australis and Eastern Falkland Island Wolf Dusicyon australis darwini, both listed here, the supposed eastern subspecies isnt not valid, this wolf dosent have any reckognized subspecies D, a, darwini is just a synonym. These islands are too few and to small to have held two different wolfs. From: extinctanimals.proboards22.com/index.cgi?board=carnivora&action=display&thread=1115308962. |
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Post by another specialist on Oct 19, 2005 23:25:05 GMT
thanks for information above Peter.
Has any one found any info to confirm the above about just being a synonym?
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Post by another specialist on Nov 6, 2005 17:45:55 GMT
 Gap in nature |
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Post by Bucardo on Nov 9, 2005 0:01:53 GMT
www.naturalis.nl/300pearls/Falkland dog Too tame to survive. The Falkland dog, Dusicyon australis ( Kerr, 1792) was discovered in 1690 by Captain Strong. He captured one and kept it for several months as the ship's dog until the animal, startled by the firing of the ship's guns, lept overboard. In 1765 Commodore Byron claimed the Falkland Islands for Great Britain. His account shows that in those days the Falkland dog was rather numerous. Byron was the first to bring a skin of this animal to Europe. Despite heavy persecution by Argentinian settlers in the first decades of the 19th century, the species was still common in 1833, when Darwin visited the islands with the Beagle. Darwin commented on the tameness of the animals and feared that this might eventually lead to their extinction. He was right. Shortly afterwards the Falkland dog was discovered by the fur trade. The extremely tame animals were lured by trappers holding a piece of meat in one hand and a knife in the other. By 1840 the species was already extinct in East Falkland . Poisoned The final blow came when Scottish settlers started sheep farming on the islands. The dogs were thought to kill sheep, so an intensive poisoning campaign was set up. The last Falkland dog is believed to have been killed in 1876 at Shallow Bay, West Falkland. www.naturalis.nl/300pearls/dossiers/images/n017_2.jpgOf mysterious origin. The Falkland dog is probably the most enigmatic member of the dog family. It lived on the barren Falkland Islands, nearly 500 km from the South American mainland. Though often called " Falkland wolf" or "fox", it is neither fox nor wolf. The species no doubt belongs with the other South American canids, but its nearest relative has not been identified with certainty and may be extinct. Domesticated. The Falkland dog is larger than any of the South American canids and shows a distinct white tail-tip. This is sometimes regarded as a sign of domestication and some skull characters too, seem to point in this direction. Finally, it seems impossible that any dog species could have reached these remote islands on its own and survived the harsh conditions of the Ice Ages, whereas its nearest relative on the mainland would have become extinct. Therefore, it has been suggested that the Falkland dog is a result of early domestication, either of a South American species that became extinct, or as the product of an early hybridization between a form of domestic dog and an as yet unknown South American canid. The dogs were brought to the Falkland Islands by prehistoric man during the early Holocene. Here they stayed behind after the first inhabitants of the islands either died out or departed. The feral dogs survived on a diet of seabirds and seal pups and sheltered in burrows which they dug themselves. The museum collection. Few specimens of the Falkland dog have been preserved. The Natural History Museum in London has two mounted skins collected during the voyage of the Beagle, a skeleton and some skulls. Other specimens are in Stockholm and Brussels.The National Museum of Natural History possesses three mounted animals and their skulls. One of these was purchased from the dealer G.A. Frank; it is only labelled " South America". The other two were collected by expeditions of Captains J.C. Ross in 1843 and C.C. Abbott in 1863. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. L.W. van den Hoek Ostende
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Post by another specialist on Nov 9, 2005 5:29:26 GMT
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Post by sebbe67 on Jan 22, 2006 15:43:20 GMT
Female from West Falklands  Male from East Falklands  This is rather intresting as some say that there is two subspecies, one on the west falklands and another on the east falklands, |
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Post by another specialist on Jan 23, 2006 11:52:55 GMT
thanks for the images sebbe67
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Post by another specialist on Jan 23, 2006 11:58:25 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jan 23, 2006 12:00:54 GMT
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The fur looks very realistic, my mammals allways look like they would be naked.
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