maned wolf
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of maned wolf
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Last year the BBC's Planet Earth III team revealed the risk to the rare maned wolf from fires used for clearing the savannah for farming.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
In Brazil, it was once fairly common to carry maned wolf eyeballs as good luck charms, for example.
From The Verge • Jan. 31, 2016
The maned wolf is actually not a wolf, and also not a fox.
From The Verge • Jan. 31, 2016
The maned wolf, jaguar, puma, giant anteater, and giant armadillo of the continent’s pampas and central savannas are vestiges of a rich Serengeti-like fauna that flourished in the Pleistocene epoch, 15,000 years ago.
From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2013
The other is far more interesting and extremely rare; it is called aguará, its nearest ally being the aguará-guazú, the Canis jubatus or maned wolf of naturalists, found north of the pampean district.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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