Falkland islands wolf
warrah
Falkland Islands dog
Antarctic wolf
dusicyon australis latin

The Falkland Islands wolf, also known as a Warrah.

The type species is Dusicyon australis, the Falkland Islands wolf.

However, no fossil from North America can be assigned to the Falkland Islands wolf or its immediate ancestors.

Dusicyon avus, known from fossils from southern South America as recent as 1600 years ago, was a close mainland relative of the Falkland Islands wolf.

The Falkland Islands wolf existed on both West and East Falkland, but Charles Darwin was uncertain if they were differentiated varieties.

It is the only mustelid, and one of only two terrestrial mammal species in the order Carnivora, to become extinct in historic times (along with the Falkland Islands wolf).

A study, published in 2003, on the brain anatomy of several canids, placed the maned wolf together with the Falkland Islands wolf, and with pseudo-foxes of the genus Pseudalopex.

There are no native land mammals since the extinct Falkland Islands Wolf, or Warrah, was exterminated there, though the island contains a population of introduced cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus sp.)

The route by which the Falkland Islands wolf was established in the islands was until recently a puzzle as the islands have never been connected to the mainland and there are no other native land mammals.

Dusicyon avus, widely distributed in the late Pleistocene from Uruguay through Buenos Aires Province to southernmost Chile, is the closest known relative of the Falkland Islands wolf; the two lineages split only about 16,000 years ago.

One study based on DNA evidence, published in 2009, showed that the extinct Falkland Islands wolf was the most closely related species to the maned wolf in historical times, and shared a common ancestor with it about 6 million years ago.

Since there are few if any cases of a large land animal making such a journey by itself (the Falkland Islands wolf being a possible exception), the ancestors of modern dingoes most likely were brought to Australia on boats by Asian seafarers.

Wildlife on the island includes Gentoo Penguins, South American Gray Foxes (introduced, not to be confused with the Falkland Islands Wolf), Peregrine Falcons, Southern and Striated Caracaras, Guanacos, fur seals, and many seabirds.

The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the warrah and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands.

A 2009 analysis of mitochondrial DNA from five museum specimens of the Falkland Islands wolf indicated that they had multiple mitochondrial haplotypes whose most recent common ancestor lived about 330,000 years ago, giving some idea of the genetic diversity of the founding population.

There also specimens of several extinct species housed in the museum, including the Liverpool Pigeon, the Great Auk (and an egg), the Falkland Islands Wolf, the South Island Piopio, the Lord Howe Swamphen, the Dodo, the Long-tailed Hopping Mouse, and the Thylacine.

This means it is likely that the Warrah arrived in the islands long before humans.

The town itself is small but the farms extend southwest out to the township of Warrah.

The only native terrestrial mammal, the Warrah, was wiped out in the mid-19th century.

Fishing is also popular in the two main rivers, the Warrah and the Chartres.

It is commemorated in the name of one of the island's rivers, the "Warrah".

The village was surveyed when part of the Warrah grant was subdivided and sold in 1908.

The archipelago had only one terrestrial mammal upon the arrival of Europeans, the warrah.

It is a service centre to the rural areas of Warrah and Mount Parry.

The Falkland Islands wolf, also known as a Warrah.

It was traditionally thought that Patagonian Indians once brought the warrah to the islands as a hunting dog.

Warrah River is one of the two largest watercourses on West Falkland.

His other sons were pioneers in the Scone, Tomala and Warrah districts.

"Warrah Knitwear", a company formerly based in Fox Bay.

The Warrah River and Chartres River are nearby fishing rivers.

The only terrestrial mammal upon the arrival of Europeans was the warrah, a fox-like canid found on both major islands.

The warrah's Latin name translates into "foolish dog of the south", because of its apparent lack of fear of people.

The presence of the Warrah has often been cited as evidence of pre-European occupation of the islands.

In 1938, after canvassing support from various societies to which she belonged Warrah Sanctuary was proclaimed with Crommelin the founding trustee.

The Falkland Islands have no native reptiles or amphibians, and the only native mammal, the warrah, is now extinct.

The warrah was one of the first casualties, as Darwin says in The Voyage of the Beagle:

The warrah was featured on a 2009 Falkland Islands commemorative stamp issued for the Charles Darwin bicentennial.

The Falkland Island Fox or Warrah used to live on the Falkland Islands.

Willow Tree is located at the north-eastern corner of the enormous Warrah grant which was made out to the Australian Agricultural Company in 1833.

A small wolf, the warrah, the loup-renard of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, is extinct, the last having been seen about 1875 on West Falkland.

In December 1946, Crommelin offered her Warrah Sanctuary to the University of Sydney with one condition: she could live out her remaining years on the land.

The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the warrah and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands.

The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the warrah and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands.

The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the warrah and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands.