maned wolf

American  

noun

1. a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number.

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Etymology

Origin of maned wolf

First recorded in 1900–05

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maned wolf

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

The maned wolf is actually not a wolf, and also not a fox.

From The Verge ● Jan. 31, 2016

The maned wolf is a misunderstood beauty, with very little in common with most of its closest relatives.

From The Verge ● Jan. 31, 2016

If the maned wolf is not a wolf, and the giant anteater an evolutionary oddity, no mammal is as strange as a giant armadillo.

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 W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

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