What is it?
Ah! It’s good old Lycalopex, performing the role in South America that Vulpes does elsewhere in the world.
Splainer:
More information:
- Culpeos aren’t intimidated by size
- They coexist with punmas
- Foxes may be intercontinental travelers, but culpeos have the world’s southernmost canid:
“South” does not always mean “warm” when you get near the latitude of Antarctica.
Meanwhile…kits! The accompanying YouTube note sounds a little like a hotel advertisement but reports that the kits were filmed playing near their den located close to the hotel’s heaters in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile.
Some lagniappe:
Foxy the dog had disappeared from this California family’s home two years earlier and ended up in an animal shelter in 2013. She had a microchip, fortunately, and the county notified the very surprised family, who rushed to go get her.
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