The mammal in question is the Falkland Islands wolf ( Dusicyon australis ), the first canid known to have been driven to ...

George Lee, who lives in the Falkland Islands, works on his family’s farm on most weekends and holidays. Here he separates sheep that have already been shorn, or trimmed, from those who will ...

As to how the animals had wound up in the Falklands, Pole-Evans wasn’t sure, though he didn’t believe there had been Indigenous peoples living on the islands prior to European colonization.

We barely knew the warrah, also known as the Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis). In 1876 it went extinct due to hunting—the first canid to fade away from overhunting in modern history.