| 单词 | falkland island wolf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFalkland Island wolf Falkland Island wolf n. (also Falkland Islands wolf) an extinct wolf-like dog, Dusicyon australis, which was endemic to the Falkland Islands (where it was the only native land mammal) but was exterminated in 1876; also called Falkland Islands fox, Antarctic wolf.The Falkland Islands wolf is believed to be related to the maned wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus, of South America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > other types red wolf1823 hill-fox1838 kuri1838 zorro1838 Falkland Island wolf1857 bush dog1883 guara1884 1857 National Mag. May 487/1 The Falkland Islands wolves subsist almost exclusively on the upland geese; which, from fear of them..build only on the small outlying islets. 1905 Bull. Southern Calif. Acad. Sci. 4 27 South America has no representative true wolves except the Falkland Island wolf. 1977 Science 30 Sept. 1341/2 Taking all features together it seems that the Falkland Island wolf was either a relic of a domesticated form of Dusicyon or a feral hybrid evolved from a cross between a domestic Canis species and a Dusicyon species. 2011 J. P. Rafferty Carnivores 59 Genetic evidence suggests that the Falkland Islands, or Antarctic, wolf (Dusicyon australis), now extinct, diverged from North American wolves some six million years ago. < as lemmas |
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