Culpeo
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The culpeo, also known as Culpeo zorro, Andean zorro, Andean fox, Paramo wolf, Andean wolf, and colpeo fox, is a species of South American fox. Despite the name, it is not a true fox, but more closely
Culpeo Lo Barnechea 2
Culpeo skull
A culpeo in the Antofagasta Region (2010)
A culpeo feasting on the carcass of a vicuña at El Tatio, San Pedro de Atacama, in the Antofagasta Region (2013)
Fuegian dog
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The Fuegian dog, or Yahgan dog, or Patagonian dog is an extinct type of canine. The Fuegian dog was bred and domesticated from the South American culpeo, also known as the culpeo fox.
Culpeo
…rare, but overall the species is not threatened with extinction. The culpeo was domesticated by the Selkʼnam people of Tierra del Fuego, producing the Fuegian dog which became extinct in the late 19th or early 20th century. The culpeo is a canid intermediate in size between a red fox and a coyote. It is the…
Two Fuegian dogs: Katekita (female) and Tapan (male)
Skull of a Fuegian dog, photographed c. 1910s, and published in the journal Arkiv för Zoologi
Selkʼnam hunting together with Fuegian dogs
Colorized sketch of Tapan, by Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais (1884)