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Dusicyon australis - Images of Known Specimens - Sicilianu - 06-18-2016

Hello everyone,

I wanted to begin a post to try to synthesize images known specimens of Dusicyon australis, the warrah or Falkland Islands fox. Personally, I find it very interesting to compile known images of extinct animals, and this particular species has been in the news it seems yearly with a new study. I see this forum and Carnivora forum as being somewhat complimentary - with Carnivora being more of a storehouse of broad information. There is indeed a species profile that I have contributed to there, so I will likely not repeat all information; however, I do feel it would be appropriate to list images of known specimens of D. australis for convenience sake for those surfing the web. Certainly, I appreciate when someone has already made these compilations for me Wink. Any contributions are welcome. 


I am missing images of the specimen from Philadelphia Museum. This would complete the set of known pelts/taxiderms according to Jansen & Mije (2015). 




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BMNH 34.3.15.47; male, collected on East, Natural History Museum, London, UK




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BMNH 34.3.15.48, female collected on West; Natural History Museum, London, UK




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KBIN 1032; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences



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KBIN 1032; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (1)




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NRM A581570; mounted skin male wolf; Swedish Museum of Natural History









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OMNH VT2369; Otago Museum of Natural History

More images from this museum located on the museum website: http://otagomuseum.nz/collections/search-the-collection/VT2369




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RMNH.MAM.19111; probably from East Falklands. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden

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RMNH.MAM.19111; probably from East Falklands. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (1)



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RMNH.MAM.19111; probably from East Falklands. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden

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RMNH.MAM.19111; probably from East Falklands. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (1)



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RMNN.MAM.19113; from East Falkland, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden

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RMNN.MAM.19113; from East Falkland, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (1)

RE: Dusicyon australis - Images of Known Specimens - Sicilianu - 06-18-2016

Sorry for the double post, but I am not sure if this is the preferred venue for this thread. We can move it to images, but as this is strictly meant to be a repository for images for this species, I thought premier league would be appropriate. Please let me know for future posts.

Also, would it be better to just make a thread for extinct animal images?

RE: Dusicyon australis - Images of Known Specimens - sanjay - 06-18-2016

Nice info,
I think this thread is appropriate for this.
For making thread on extinct animal, I think we can make image thread in respective forum section. I am saying it becasue almost all thread have images.
However, I am open to follow other suggestion

RE: Dusicyon australis - Images of Known Specimens - Sully - 06-19-2016

Is this the animal also known as the warrah?

RE: Dusicyon australis - Images of Known Specimens - Sicilianu - 06-19-2016

Yes this is the warrah or Falkland islands "fox"/"wolf."

If only we could get images of the specimen on display in Philadelphia. Anyone live around there?