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Zoo Photos
Follow the maned wolf for photos of other canines
The maned wolf comes from the grasslands of Patagonia. It's more of an omnivore than a hunter, using thier long legs to stride through the tall grass as they hunt down small mammals, insects and wild fruit. The zoo have a pair of maned wolves, and have had several successful litters. The first lot of pups had to be hand-reared, but the later litters were all mum-reared.
I can't begin to describe the reek these wolves give off. "Like a fox, only 10x worse," sort of works, and "a pungent, musky shit smell." is sort of right. If you combine them, then go worse than that... you get the idea.
Cape Hunting Dogs, or Painted Dogs. These are now on the endangered list. Their main predators are motor vehicle accidents and hunting, in that order.
Dingoes. Dingoes are a breed of domestic canine that were never truely domesticated. They're only endangered as far as the breed is concerned: dingoes are mating with feral dogs. There are very few pure-bred dingoes left.
Above: wild dog. Below: miildly annoyed dog woken from a nap. I include a photo of Polly to demonstrate the dingo ancestry in her. It shows up in her desire to hunt down and eat crickets, and her colour pattern, and when she's older she'll have the broad dingo head.
The maned wolf comes from the grasslands of Patagonia. It's more of an omnivore than a hunter, using thier long legs to stride through the tall grass as they hunt down small mammals, insects and wild fruit. The zoo have a pair of maned wolves, and have had several successful litters. The first lot of pups had to be hand-reared, but the later litters were all mum-reared.
I can't begin to describe the reek these wolves give off. "Like a fox, only 10x worse," sort of works, and "a pungent, musky shit smell." is sort of right. If you combine them, then go worse than that... you get the idea.
Cape Hunting Dogs, or Painted Dogs. These are now on the endangered list. Their main predators are motor vehicle accidents and hunting, in that order.
Dingoes. Dingoes are a breed of domestic canine that were never truely domesticated. They're only endangered as far as the breed is concerned: dingoes are mating with feral dogs. There are very few pure-bred dingoes left.
Above: wild dog. Below: miildly annoyed dog woken from a nap. I include a photo of Polly to demonstrate the dingo ancestry in her. It shows up in her desire to hunt down and eat crickets, and her colour pattern, and when she's older she'll have the broad dingo head.
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Well the lot you photographed seem to have had a run into with a steamroller. Those are some flat puppies! They put my cat to shame for looking like throw rugs.
As to the dingo, they look suspiciously like <a href="http://www.puppyshop.com/caninebreeds/shibainus.htm">Shiba Inus</a> Most pariah type dogs like kind of similar, but shibas are one of the few that comes in the that same shade as dingos do.
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My dog likes shibas as they're fast and usually chase her. :)
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That being said, the maned wolves are gorgeous. And the Capeys aren't half bad either.
Maned Wolves
I've seen the colony they have in Edinburgh Zoo, and they have some in Chester Zoo that I've scented but not seen yet (they really are shy). I don't mind the scent, and it is necessary for them in evolutionary terms to have developed it, living in pampas and marsh there aren't many good surfaces to spray
Maned wolves
I've seen the ones they have in Edinburgh Zoo, and I've scented but not seen those in Chester Zoo.
Actually I don't mind their scent. It would have to be strong considering where they live.
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No dingoes though...only a happy pack of arctic wolves.
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