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As much as it may look like somebody just stretched a fox vertically, the maned wolf is not closely related to foxes, or even to wolves. But besides their looks, sounds, and smells, by far the most un-wolf-like feature of these guys is their diet.
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#BizarreBeasts #manedwolf
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Sources:
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/maned-wolf.htm
https://www.needpix.com/photo/1557460/animal-world-wolf-maned-wolf-mammal-predator-slim
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/maned-wolf
https://www.zoonewengland.org/stone-zoo/our-animals/mammals/bush-dog/
https://www.canids.org/app/images/ACWG/maned-wolf-map.jpg
https://louisvillezoo.org/animalsandplants/wolf-maned/
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Chrysocyon_brachyurus/
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Gray-Wolf
https://www.fci.be/Nomenclature/Standards/235g02-en.pdf
https://repository.si.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/383d8b04-3ca8-4de3-a408-fafd2e7cc3e0/content
http://wired.com/2011/03/maned-wolf-pee-demystified/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5927-9_13
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/2347/Dietz1985.pdf
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05284.x
https://www.bio.fsu.edu/~steppan/Holliday_and_Steppan.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836903003650
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/maned-wolf-facts
https://archive.bunewsservice.com/meet-the-maned-wolf/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014489412003839#b0225
https://www.canids.org/species/region/weird%20canids
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/omnivores/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/carnivores/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/herbivore/
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/02-0397
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/290/1992/20221062/86631/What-is-a-mammalian-omnivore-Insights-into
https://natureworks.nhpbs.org/concepts/omnivores/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2205986119
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)01695-9
https://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F10.3&pageseq=268
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2570
https://web.archive.org/web/20150708094903/http://www.falklands-museum.com/index.php/demise-of-the-warrah/190-renshaws-comment-on-extinction
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Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zq36WLvR196kU3JzTW8LcQmEbG8LK6ZIhFkPSAlL-TM/edit?tab=t.0
As much as it may look like somebody just stretched a fox vertically, the maned wolf is not closely related to foxes, or even to wolves. But besides their looks, sounds, and smells, by far the most un-wolf-like feature of these guys is their diet.
Subscribe to the pin club here: https://complexly.store/products/bizarre-beasts-pin-subscription
This month's pin is designed by Geneva Bowers. You can find out more about her and her work here: https://www.genevab.com/
You can cancel any time by emailing hello@dftba.com
Wondering if we used AI to create graphics (or thumbnails or scripts!) for this video? Nope! Every Complexly video is lovingly, painstakingly human-made.
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#BizarreBeasts #manedwolf
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Sources:
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/maned-wolf.htm
https://www.needpix.com/photo/1557460/animal-world-wolf-maned-wolf-mammal-predator-slim
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/maned-wolf
https://www.zoonewengland.org/stone-zoo/our-animals/mammals/bush-dog/
https://www.canids.org/app/images/ACWG/maned-wolf-map.jpg
https://louisvillezoo.org/animalsandplants/wolf-maned/
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Chrysocyon_brachyurus/
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Gray-Wolf
https://www.fci.be/Nomenclature/Standards/235g02-en.pdf
https://repository.si.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/383d8b04-3ca8-4de3-a408-fafd2e7cc3e0/content
http://wired.com/2011/03/maned-wolf-pee-demystified/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5927-9_13
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/2347/Dietz1985.pdf
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05284.x
https://www.bio.fsu.edu/~steppan/Holliday_and_Steppan.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836903003650
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/maned-wolf-facts
https://archive.bunewsservice.com/meet-the-maned-wolf/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014489412003839#b0225
https://www.canids.org/species/region/weird%20canids
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/omnivores/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/carnivores/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/herbivore/
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/02-0397
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/290/1992/20221062/86631/What-is-a-mammalian-omnivore-Insights-into
https://natureworks.nhpbs.org/concepts/omnivores/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2205986119
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)01695-9
https://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F10.3&pageseq=268
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2570
https://web.archive.org/web/20150708094903/http://www.falklands-museum.com/index.php/demise-of-the-warrah/190-renshaws-comment-on-extinction
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Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zq36WLvR196kU3JzTW8LcQmEbG8LK6ZIhFkPSAlL-TM/edit?tab=t.0
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