Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

[Dark Jaguar]

Credits: Onças do Iguaçú

Taking care of our maned wolves!

Today was a special one where we also helped to take care of our wolves!
Early on our team was told that a maned wolf had crossed a busy highway. We went to check and couldn't find the animal.
He was then located by the Environmental Police inside the Sest Senat, contained inside a bathroom.
Miraculously he escaped being run over!

The veterinarian and super partner of the Onças do Iguaçu Project, Wanderlei de Morais, was wonderful: he did the containment of the animal, anesthesia, clinical evaluation and all the monitoring of the return of the anesthesia until the moment of the release. Wanderlei, we love you! Thank you very much!
We also collected blood and did an anesthesia of blood biochemistry.

A thousand thanks also to the Environmental Police team, who accompanied us and helped us through the whole process.
The little wolf, a young male, was not injured and the decision was made to release him immediately.
During the entire procedure we had at a distance the super support and guidance of Rogério Cunha from CENAP/ICMBio who besides being a partner of the Project is a great specialist in maned wolves.

The release was done in a protected place with the kind of environment that maned wolves need (they are not animals from closed forests). The wolf went immediately after the release to drink water in a stream and followed his path.
He was baptized Areté which means in Tupi "festive day". And today was a day of celebration a day when we could save this animal and give it a new chance of life.

The golden eyes of a jaguar sweep out his heart and the sweet strong eyes of a maned wolf are no less sweeping.
Long live to you, Areté. May the bush protect you and keep you.

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