Tag: canid warrah

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Closer to solving the mystery of the extinct Falklands' canid warrah

  

  The team headed by Kit Hamley also extended its research into the warrah (Dusicyon australis), an extinct species of fox. The warrah was the only native and terrestrial mammal to reside on the Falkland Islands at the time of European arrival. Subsequent hunting wiped the species out in 1856, making it the first extinct canid in the historic record, Hamley says.