Tapir Pair
Photograph courtesy Fauna & Flora International
Walla Walla, Washington, US: A red fox sits in the grass as a magpie dives towards it. Photograph: Jeff Horner/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin/AP
Baby tapir Parima enjoys some leaves during its first outing at its open air enclosure of the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany. Picture: DANIEL REINHARDT/AFP/GettyImages
The maned wolf is the largest canid in South America. It is also the tallest wild canid in the world, its stilt-like legs a useful adaptation for spying prey over the tall grasslands where it lives. Despite its name, the maned wolf is not a wolf at all, nor is it a fox, coyote, or dog. It is the only member of the Chrysocyon genus, making it a truly unique animal, not closely related to any other living canid. One hypothesis for this is that the maned wolf is the last surviving species of the Pleistocene Extinction, which wiped out all other large canids from the continent.
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Photo taken by Sean Crane in Brazil.
