World's Loneliest Wolf | Falkland Islands Wolf

[@AegleCreations]

I've included some sources and articles for further reading in the video description. Thanks!

[@pablorey9203]

Great video. The history part was wrong, the islands were discovered by Spain.. they belong to Argentina, btw. thank you for mentioning the name Malvinas. Hope my comment did not bother you. I recently discovered your channel, and it is great. Guess KZbin recommended a video of your channel because of the emphasis you have on Sri Lanka... "the tigers of (i don't remember)". So YT taught wildlife + Sri Lanka this video is for him. But these tigers were some other thing, part of a human catastrophe.

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

A truly fascinating animal, the Falklands still have two endemic species left that are being very well protected today, these are a wren species and the falklands steamer duck, one of the only flightless ducks!

[@stonewolf7850]

Sad how their friendliness towards people, was exploited to extirpate them.

[@AegleCreations]

Exactly!

[@dbdgirl-o3i]

a good/wholesome thing being terribly taking advantage off. :(

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

@@AegleCreations Thank you for such a depressing video.

[@PackHunter117]

It literally looks like an animal like the Capybara that could’ve made a good pet if people didn’t kill them all. 😞

[@dinogamer7214]

Kinda like the dodo

[@aardwolf6668]

As soon as it was stated that the Falkland Island Wolf was a wolf whose closest living relative is the maned wolf, I had to look it up for myself since it seemed contradictory because I've always heard that maned wolves aren't wolves either. From what I can tell, while they're both canini (true dogs) like wolves, they're part of the cerdocynonina subtribe which branched off from wolves and wolf-like true dogs. (Sorry if I stepped on any toes, but I felt like I should share this info)

[@Hy-Brasil]

never apologize for sharing information. toes be damned.

[@aardwolf6668]

@@Hy-Brasil I didn't see this until now but thanks for saying that. It might seem like a small thing, but I'm neurodivergent and have had a lot of struggles with this kind of thing so it's nice to be assured it was okay ^^;;

[@theproblemmustbeinyourpant5910]

Amazing how despite its reportedly tame nature we still managed to paint it as an “enemy of mankind” with our archaic way of thinking. Pray that we stop this madness our species brings.

[@roiq5263]

Sad. Poor wolf just wanted to be friends. Humans are disgusting.

[@houssem711]

European colonialists to be precise😊....

[@roiq5263]

@@houssem711 like other peoples don't hunt animals to extintion.

[@UmamiPapi]

How evil would you have to be to club and knife a friendly little dog for no reason other than to kill it?

[@Chile-xo6do]

Average british citizen moment*

[@UmamiPapi]

@Easttowest For food and pelts.

[@alphatrion100]

We did it to thylacene too

[@pugdad2555]

humans kill more sheep than any animal

[@mr.10dollars72]

Ask the modern day Chinese

[@artawhirler]

Yeah, Bartholomew Sulivan probably didn't see any difference between the finches in the Galapagos either.

[@zagortenay33]

This video tells a lot about the true nature of human kind.

[@NubhavK]

Yea...true nature of early European settlers

[@michaelcraig9449]

Some people. Speak for yourself only. A lot of us would do anything to help them instead.

[@michaelcraig9449]

@@NubhavK Not the general settlers. Mostly the militaries, and 1% money chaser robber barons. Not the general public.

[@NubhavK]

@@michaelcraig9449 all right sure mate

[@johnwhite-q7s]

Our true nature is that we’re just animals and not as special as we think are. This isn’t our world. We’re just a part of it, and we’re about to pay steep price for acting like we own the place

[@Scrappydrop]

I consider this to be one of, if not the most tragic extinction stories. A kind, gentle animal that only ate livestock to survive due to the disturbance of humans, & despite its tameness, we still managed to make it look like it threatened us. Every time I search about this animal, I always drop a tear. Yes, there numbers were already dwindling even before humans came to the Falkland Islands, but they were so welcoming to us. It really makes a person lose hope in humanity. However, it's better now, since awareness has become widespread. Hopefully, someday, even though it may not be possible, we'll be able to bring back this beautiful, majestic animal back from extinction, alongside others. (Sorry this was so long).

[@ohianaw]

the fact it was the only endemic land mammal is sad

[@harunyoldash]

İnteresting topic and great presentation. Love your videos.

[@AegleCreations]

Thank you!

[@royhay5741]

They were having the time of their lives until fucking humans arrived, who thus specicided them.

[@yansideabacoa6257]

Europeans*

[@representman9836]

@@yansideabacoa6257 eh humans across the globe have caused mass extinction not just Europeans

[@robertsansone1680]

Very interesting. Thank You. I've never heard of that species before. What a shame but predictable.

[@00dreamer00]

Imagine getting hunted to extinction. Scary af

[@wxlfmurdr]

Yea and the only ones who deserve it is humans.

[@zaneninjago410]

To exterminate an entire species for such little gain is deplorable. My condolences.

[@nathanandsugar5252]

“They would even swim across to meet approaching ships,” Press A to receive your new quest

[@tiagoking1312]

I remembered the Thylacine, a.k.a tasmanian wolf/tiger... Both Falk. wolf and Thylacine were the apex predators in their habitats (in the tiger's case, was the terrestrial, because crocs lurks in Tasmania's rivers), their appearence was relatively similar and, saddly, both were unfairly condenned by acusion to killing sheep. R.I.P both 😔🐾

[@bkjeong4302]

Thylacines never were apex predators. They were much smaller than commonly assumed, so not hunting animals close to their own size or larger. Australia’s ACTUAL apex land predators were killed off much earlier when the aboriginals first showed up. There was no apex predator in Australia for tens of thousands of years until dingoes were introduced, and even afterwards there was no native apex predator in Australia because the thylacine was never one in the first place.

[@tiagoking1312]

@@bkjeong4302 I didn't said nothin about Australia, just Tasmania itself, there, the Thylacine was the apex, do not have other larger predator there on land, the other are small, in maximum, there is a medium sized predator, the Tasmania Devil. Thylacines were half the size of dingos in height and a bit longer in lenght, they weren't so little.

[@Matt_from_Florida]

I am also unfairly condemned by accusation of killing sheep. Don't let them hunt me to extinction bro!

[@davidhughes4189]

There are no crocodiles in Tasmania. The closest crocodile habitat is over 1000 miles north, in Queensland.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@tiagoking1312 That's small as land predators go; most land predators around the size of a thylacine (thylacines only weighed around 15kg, far less than what colonists claimed) are too small to regularly hunt prey around their own size.

[@pef1960]

This makes me want to weep. We really are the ultimate invasive species...

[@thedannybseries8857]

Weeping is meaningless

[@backroomscataloger]

@@thedannybseries8857 your disallowing people to feel emotions is meaningless

[@bcdesilva]

Very informative video with amazing facts! Thank you!👍👍

[@reservedcheese]

Who else wants to have this put on a deextinction list? There’s always someone who would want to buy it as a pet to pay for the cloning

[@satchelofdoom1564]

This is the saddest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Hopefully, one day science will correct some of the wrongs we have done.

[@jaredmn8580]

Another animal extinct because we were douchebags

[@gerharddeusser9103]

They trusted humans because their ancestors had been domesticated already on the mainland. So sad and horrible. One of the most tragic stories ever.

[@itsmeblank4028]

So hold-up, people went to this land where this Canis lived uninterrupted for centuries and people sailed thousand of miles set up and Invasive species and decided that these animals that live here before them would be TOOOOO dangerous to livestock and so decided the easiest thing would just kill them 😕😕😕

[@Kurominos1]

Human -kind in a nutshell i guess

[@bickboose9364]

They lived uninterrupted for *6 million years* according to the video.

[@NaniFatimana]

Subscribed. I enjoy your channel a lot, keep up the good work.

[@BeAniEbOii1]

Falk me! What an interesting pronunciation

[@NatsuoxOkami]

This is so heart breaking, poor wolves. Human is sadly the most evil & invasive species known roam to Earth that has caused so many unnecessary extinction of creatures for selfish reasons. The Falkland Wolf is just one of those instances. Those wolves peacefully lived on those islands for who knows how long before humans showed up, took over the land to breed sheep, and had the gull to set a bounty on the wolves ( the islands only native predator ) as a 'threat' and hunted them to extinction. It is even stated that they were so tamed that the wolves were easily lured by meat and at close range was killed via clubbing or stabbing. That is so unnecessarily brutal for such a sweet animal. One day the universe is going to get tired of the human race's cruel & selfish BS and take us out like the dinosaurs so that nature to take over once again. Human kind is the reason the Earth is in such poor shape and we are the only ones to blame killing both animals and plant life alike.

[@pyrotechnick420]

It's all about money. If each pelt got you $1,000 you would be tempted too. People back then couldn't fathom the Earth having a finite supply of resources, hell, most people didn't even have a clear picture of what the earth was at the time. Also the notion of a species going extinct didn't carry the same weight back then that it does today. The only redeeming factor in all of this is that we eventually saw the err of our ways and now we fight to save species that were previously decimated.

[@ApeX-pj4mq]

The only thing capable of wiping out humanity entirely would be a Gamma Ray Burst however even that wouldnt be able to affect you if you were underground. An asteroid strike would also fail to wipe out humanity, it would actually do less damage than the Gamma Ray Burst and we now possess the technology to redirect asteroids. Nature has a very small chance of wiping out humans

[@thedannybseries8857]

The universe predetermined humans to wipe out many animals. Freedom is not real

[@marcogallazzi9049]

Hard to give this a thumbs up, but it´s information that must be shared

[@revertedakhi]

Humans are really good at erasing species of animals in this planet.

[@ZaidFrmDa922]

White ppl*

[@johnkeane1419]

@@ZaidFrmDa922 The English

[@conornorris6815]

@@ZaidFrmDa922 if you look at megafauna extinction rates by continents the highest rate is actually in precontact south America and Europe is actually quite low

[@pierreparillon8937]

@@ZaidFrmDa922 Tan people* There are no humans with pure white or black skin, we are all shades of brown and orange

[@theotheseaeagle]

@@conornorris6815 exactly. People always blame it on Europeans when in most cases they were already driven to near extinction by the native peoples (in some cases). For example the moa was driven extinct by the NZ natives long before European settlers arrived

[@FazendaBarrancoAlto]

Excellent, thank you!

[@pyrotechnick420]

7:02 There is evidence that there were human cultures in South America before the mass migration over the Bering Sea. So this theory could have some merit considering that the theory is that natives from the pacific islands sailed to South America before 20,000 years ago.

[@nawa246]

Good informative !

[@Mickeymc5637]

Lovely video mate, keep it up! 👏👏

[@AegleCreations]

Thank you!

[@Coelacanth_yes]

This is why people can't have nice things because they will destroy it

[@ataranaoahakaraaf3786]

you have it see it right,we created a world full of ugly barren destructive and cursed things also in humanity and we cannot cope with pure innocence because we living by ouer own choice rather in hell than in a paradise accourse not we all love the evil from this world but we cannot behaved pure good without any darkness to answerd to the living creatures that naievely joyfull welcomed us with kind and friendly manner to the unknown that we are as visitors.we like to overexploited the world make everywhere when we settle space for ourself as overproductive species alone and driven other livings beings in extinction or kill it only for fun.how many peacefull and naievely friendly society,s to visitors has survived it to this day?and how many the more bloodthirsty agressively expansionistic society,s and religions the warmongering colonising migrating conquerers has founded the modern world?you have the answer.

[@Coelacanth_yes]

@@ataranaoahakaraaf3786 did you seriously write all this out or did you just copy and paste it

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

Yet another truly unique species eradicated by humans.

[@Retrobirdking]

The same fate of tasmanian tiger

[@johannebaker9730]

1592 was first landing in Falklands by John Davis sir. The 1690 landing was the second time? From Jo, based on Stanley, Falkland Islands. Thank you.

[@beachboy0505]

Excellent video Very sad story The foxes 🦊 we’re glad to see people, but…

[@ElChavinhoDel8]

Im in a emotional state of rage and sadness, I call it the “I feel like angrily breaking wall with a hammer while crying and shouting swears continuously” emotion.

[@user-nacv-8867]

Nice video. Thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@AegleCreations]

Thanks!

[@user-nacv-8867]

@@AegleCreations Don.t forget to subscribe Thank you ❤️❤️🙏🙏

[@theolewell7535]

thank you :)

[@ProjectDarkWolf]

One factual error I think: technically the Maned wolf, and presumably by extend the Falkland islands wolf are not true wolves at all. The Maned wolf is actually from the genus Chrysocyon, as opposed to Canis (wolves). Both are from the same parent family, Canidea. Still interesting enough for me to sub.

[@indyreno2933]

@The Dark Wolf Project, actually, wolves and grey wolves are not the same thing, a wolf is any dog that is larger than either a fox, a jackal (including the coyote), or a wild species with the word "dog" in its name, therefore, the Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), the Pampas Wolf (Dusicyon avus), the Andean Wolf (Dusicyon cultridens), the Falkland Island Wolf (Dusicyon australis), the Zhoukoudian Wolf (Aenocyon variabilis), the Armbruster's Wolf (Aenocyon armbrusteri), the False Golden Wolf (Aenocyon ferox), the Edward's Wolf (Aenocyon edwardii), the Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus), the West Peruvian Wolf (Aenocyon nehringi), and the East Peruvian Wolf (Aenocyon gezi), the Ethiopian Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), the Common Golden Wolf (Flavocyon lupaster), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) are all wolves, wolves are an informal and polyphyletic group and are not a taxonomically defined or natural grouping, which is why there are living and extinct genera of dogs with species called "wolves".

[@ProjectDarkWolf]

@@indyreno2933 sorry, I should have used Latin and said they are not part of the same genus as C lupus, C rufus, lycaon , latrans etc, those closely related to the Grey wolf.

[@indyreno2933]

@The Dark Wolf Project, actually, the Canis genus only applies to just eight extant species, the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes), the New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis hallstromi), and the Dingo (Canis dingo), only six of these are wolves, the extant members of the Canis genus is entirely absent from Africa.

[@ProjectDarkWolf]

@@indyreno2933 I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make anymore.

[@spiritoflegend7483]

Same thing happened with the Dodo, humans ruin everything man. We literally can’t have anything nice

[@Sebastian-fk3gs]

Colonists when they see a rare and beautiful endemic species of animal living on a desolate island in the middle of the ocean and just minding it's own business:😡😡😡🤬🤬

[@thedannybseries8857]

Why are you mad? The humans had to kill the damn wolf. They had no other choice. The universe compelled them to do so.

[@errolhorne1061]

Same happened to the Tasmanian Tiger

[@johnroy2567]

MAN.....Guilty of the extinction of MANY species lost to the world....sad

[@DOTTORE_FOX]

Can you make a video where the topic is the discussion about cloning and reintroduce such species again?

[@AegleCreations]

Thanks for the suggestion… will try that - it’d be on a more positive note I guess, rather than the destruction man is capable of.

[@DOTTORE_FOX]

Yes the video would restore our faith in humanity again hahaha also there is species like the woolly Mammoth where scientists seriously consider to clone them and reintroduce them again in order to prevent large amounts of methane gas in Siberia where a healthy eco system could prevent worse outcomes

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

Where did you get the information that they swam out to boats? I’m aware national geographic says this but I can’t find any actual record of anyone accounting of this?

[@AegleCreations]

It was in the original record of John Strong’s landing in 1690, which was written by a shipmate of his. As I mentioned in the documentary, they took one animal on board and kept it for several months, before it jumped out to sea after hearing the canon fire from ships during a battle with the French.

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

@@AegleCreations ah thank you, I guess since they had no real natural threats it makes sense. Do you have a link to the shipmates writings if that’s okay?

[@Mizt_Plays]

once again, reasons why humans suck and we should live with the earth instead of constantly trying to exploit it

[@McClarinJ]

"Humans only arrived in the New World 20,000 years ago." I bet that "fact" will not age well. These supposed timelines keep being pushed further back in time.

[@brianzulauf2974]

this animal was featured in the zoo tycoon 2 endangered species expansion pack.

[@peters.3558]

There are other examples of Land mammals reaching remote Islands by themselves. The polar Fox on Iceland, Reindeer on Svalbard / wolves and Musk ox on Greenland. They crossed the sea using ice in colder times like ice ages. Smaller mammals are less mobile, therefore they could not cross. It is unlikely for people in Canoes to get to the Falklands without modern Navigation.

[@BigJFindAWay]

I think that an effort should be made to recreate this wolf. Maybe breed maned wolves to make them smaller with much shorter legs and a more fawn coloration.

[@porculizador]

Then you would have small maned wolves, not Falkland wolves. I don't know how close both species are genetically, but if they're viable, it is possible to fertilize a female maned wolf with the genes from a Falkland wolf obtained from existing specimens in museums and labs. Repeating this process and with some artificial selection or selective breeding you would end up with a legitimate Falklands Islands wolf.

[@BigJFindAWay]

@@porculizador That would be the ideal for certain, but I don't have a whole lot of faith in the whole cloning thing. It hasn't produced impressive results so far. But with gene splicing--hey it might just work. I think you may have something there.

[@samrizzardi2213]

That wouldn't change their dietary needs. Maned wolves have a diet consisting of 50% Amazonian fruit which doesn't grow on the Falklands.

[@Ozraptor4]

What would stop the Falkland islanders from slaughtering them all again?

[@porculizador]

@@Ozraptor4 Usually, reintroductions are tolerated fairly well by locals, especially toward the later efforts of species reintroductions. Scientific criteria such as the IUCN Red List criteria help in a successful reintroduction

[@thedannybseries8857]

Awesome! 🤩

[@darylholloway4]

Maybe wasn’t a wolf but a dog brought from early settlers

[@keerthi321]

Yup Europeans being Europeans.

[@jesusjoseph1899]

Maritime Europeans: oh an animal Animal: you gonna draw me and tell others about my existence? Maritime Europeans: Yes and end you entire career Animal:😮‍💨

[@mihaelbitola3812]

They survived for milions of years. And the cruel human beings have killed all of them.

[@jeegupopli1871]

Just the white man

[@mihaelbitola3812]

@@jeegupopli1871 all people are exactly the same.

[@johnroy2567]

During coverage of the Falklands (I won't call it a war) debacle of 1982 did anybody else notice an absence of wildlife...?

[@pteranodon6612]

It behaved like a domesticated dog. 🤔 A domesticated wolf transported by ancient humans. That seems to be the easiest explanation. We don't know for sure when humans arrived in South America.

[@klausuhlig7141]

Older I get the more I'm convinced we got no buisness on this planet,

[@toscadonna]

That was pretty dumb. They could’ve made a farm for those wolves and had pelts every year if they really wanted their pelts so that they wouldn’t have made them go extinct. The fact that they’re so tame makes me think they’d had human contact in their past and that humans brought them there in the past.

[@theotheseaeagle]

It’s common for island species to be unafraid of humans. Just like dodos etc

[@jamesblackshaw132]

WHY am I only just hearing about this

[@rmsebatgaming5956]

I believe they were tame because they didn’t know what people were there for we did not pose a massive threat them

[@paulhickie6974]

Poor wolf why are humans so cruel 😢.

[@thedannybseries8857]

Asking why is pointless. Humans are predetermined to be cruel. Freedom is not real.

[@lorisperfetto6021]

Sad. Bring them back

[@reynaldoflores4522]

The fates of the Falkland islands wolf, the Tasmanian tiger, the Great auk, etc. etc . The same stories of the boundless avarice and ignorance of humans!!!

[@tpk-all-day9111]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[@himself000]

6:50 "Humans only arrived in the New World 20,000 years ago". We thought it was only around 12,000 years ago for a long time with the 'Clovis people' being the first, until recent discoveries. I'm sure we will find more evidence that will push this date way further back. Some megalithic archaeological sites in South America (Bolivia, Peru) are potentially extremely ancient and a variety of important food such as Squash and Maize are native to Amazonia as it was a probable centre of early plant domestication by humans, possibly around the same time it was happening in Mesopotamia. We have much to learn about South American history and judging on this wolf's natural friendliness to humans and unlikely place of origin, I can only imagine it is the surviving ancestor of a dog like companion of potentially ancient, sea-faring South American people - that we have yet to find proof of. Sometimes examples like this wolf that seem out of place may be evidence in itself that we may need to rethink what was possible. Before the end of the last glacial period around 12,000 years ago the climate was much more favourable for agriculture in South America and also sea levels were much lower with different looking coastlines globally so there may have also been a land bridge like the video suggests. What do you think?

[@AegleCreations]

Agreed about the date of arrival in the New World… there is a chance, as you say, the date being pushed back due to new evidence.

[@himself000]

@@AegleCreations Most isolated species are especially evasive in behaviour as a result. So interesting that this wolf was naturally friendly to humans, almost to an extent it was desperate for human affection, as domesticated dogs today were selectively bred by us to encourage friendliness towards humans. I cant imagine the population of wolves on the Falkland's was high enough, for long enough for there to have been much potential for much genetic change to occur naturally. Unless the lack of other animals on the island caused the wolves to become extremely lonely (poor lads) I dont know how else you would explain it! Sorry for the tangent your video really got me thinking :)

[@ARGamingSFB260]

How to contact you?

[@Skypad00]

I'm so angry about their extinction.

[@thedannybseries8857]

Why?

[@wanoneone6985]

other than tasmanian tiger, passenger pigeon and dodo bird. now i know there is another animal also extinct by european settlers.

[@waragque]

Why did the thylacine gone extinct in the Papua and mainland Australia?

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Bummer. Like the Thylacine in Tasmania. Bounty?? It's like killing someone's dog for $5.00.

[@willempasterkamp862]

hm, killing 20 will earn someone a 100 box on a daily base ; not bad.

[@TheZinmo]

The maned Wolf is NOT a wolf in the strict sense. It is more closely related to foxes. This way, it was easy to find, that the falkland "wolf" was not a descendant of the domestic dogs of early south americans. (these dogs being the only reals wolfes on the whole continent)

[@indyreno2933]

@MadZin Moo, actually, wolves and grey wolves are not the same thing, a wolf is any dog that is larger than either a fox, a jackal (including the coyote), or a wild species with the word "dog" in its name, therefore, the Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), the Pampas Wolf (Dusicyon avus), the Andean Wolf (Dusicyon cultridens), the Falkland Island Wolf (Dusicyon australis), the Zhoukoudian Wolf (Aenocyon variabilis), the Armbruster's Wolf (Aenocyon armbrusteri), the False Golden Wolf (Aenocyon ferox), the Edward's Wolf (Aenocyon edwardii), the Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus), the West Peruvian Wolf (Aenocyon nehringi), and the East Peruvian Wolf (Aenocyon gezi), the Ethiopian Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), the Common Golden Wolf (Flavocyon lupaster), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) are all wolves, wolves are an informal and polyphyletic group and are not a taxonomically defined or natural grouping, which is why there are living and extinct genera of dogs with species called "wolves".

[@nicholaspawelski1031]

@@indyreno2933 From a taxonomy standpoint, a wolf is any member of the genus Canis. It has a much broader common usage due to how widely known the word and wolves themselves are, and other animals' similarities to them. The red panda and giant panda aren't closely related at all, with the red panda being most closely related to mustelids, while giant pandas are bears. Scientific names more closely follow relatedness than common names do.

[@indyreno2933]

Actually, the red panda is more closely related to raccoons than to weasels, hence, raccoons and red pandas belong to the superfamily Procyonoidea, which is split into four extant families, Mephitidae (Skunks and Stink Badgers), Procyonidae (Raccoons, Ringtail, and Cacomistle), Ailuridae (Red Panda), and Nasuidae (Coatis, Olingos, Olinguito, and Kinkajou), also, the giant panda is not a bear, the biggest required feature that makes a bear a bear is the ability to roar because all bears roar, the giant panda cannot roar, therefore it is not a bear, the giant panda is the only extant member of the family Ailuropodidae, which is only classified within the broader superfamily Ursoidea, also, not all wolves belong to the Canis genus, the Canis genus only applies to six wolf species in addition to the oceanian wild dogs, the only six wolf species included under the Canis genus are the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus (cladistically including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris))), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes), the pale-footed wolf of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent is more closely related to the oceanian wild dogs than it is to the other five wolf species under the Canis genus, the Canis genus is entirely absent from Africa, thus the Canis genus contains only eight extant species, the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus (cladistically including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris))), the White Wolf (Canis albus), the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes), the New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis hallstromi), and the Dingo (Canis dingo), the new guinea singing dog and dingo (collectively known as oceanian wild dogs) are not considered wolves, therefore, not all Canis reps are wolves and not all wolves fall under the Canis genus, thus making wolves a polyphyletic group.

[@raphlvlogs271]

what other endemic species do the Falkland islands have?

[@____________838]

Penguins, mostly

[@elairedelacallematajare]

seawolves xdd

[@keithcorrigan658]

Humans have only been in America for 20.000 years ? I don't think so ! 🙈💗🙊🌍😖

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

Why didn't they just put them on a few of the Islands in the Falklands that are uninhabited? Shame.

[@Godzilla00X]

Poor wolf, too good for this world

[@MrPaullyS]

How can the species maned wolf and Falk wolf "diverge 6 million years ago" but "share a common ancestor 70,000 years ago"?

[@Chile-xo6do]

The wolf from the islands was domesticated by indigenous tribes of the patagonia and brought to the islands, the tribes didn't stay in the islands for too long but the domesticated wolf did

[@anthonypk7281]

It's possible a common ancestor survived for 5.3 million years after the divergence. So for much of that time, atleast three species branched out.

[@____________838]

Or they diverged from other Canid lineages 6 million years ago, and last shared a common ancestor with each other 70,000 years ago.

[@bailey2913]

Darwin obviously never saw a Tasmanian tiger then. This isn’t related to Darwin, but humans are soo stupid, amazing we’ve got as far as we have 🤯

[@easportsaxb8057]

I'm pretty sure he did go to Tasmania, not sure he saw the thylacine tho. Thylacines are slightly larger on average than Falkland wolves and Tasmania is much larger (over 5 times larger) than the total area of the Falkland islands.

[@____________838]

What Darwin was referring to was that it was the only four legged critter on the island.

[@Lee.Willcox]

These domesticated wolves were used by fishermen from the mainland to dive in and catch stray fish that had been wounded by miss spent spears. Every fish was precious. As the Falkland's were so close to the mainland, only some 250 miles, the fishermen with the aid of their DOGS took longer and longer fishing round trips. Some of the kanine were taken away by currents off the shores yet made it to land. They thrived there and their offspring although feral still had the domesticated mindset. Then the Americans came, skinned them all and like all the green bottles sitting on the wall, there were 0 Falkland Wolves left upon the shaw 😫 Beginning and end of story.

[@naveensilva7671]

How many beautiful creatures we have lost because of those barbaric invaders from Europe. I am really disheartened 😢💔

[@laleema908]

Sad...

[@grandmasteryoda6717]

I wonder if these could be brought back to a certain extent through cloning. Take a maned wolf, their closest living relatives, as a surrogate mother and try to bring them back.

[@mcaskil]

u r from sri lanka right? is everything ok there?

[@torreeric499]

For those humans who kill animals for various reasons, try putting yourself on the same situation as these animals. How would you feel if one day you find out that you are the last of your kind and yet despite that tragic fact, there are still those who try to hunt you down to kill you?... I really hate those people who poach or kill animals just because they feel like it or because they feel they need to despite having a lot of alternative solutions to whatever they are up to... Only proves that some humans have no respect to the natural order of things...

[@thedannybseries8857]

It’s survival of the fittest. It always has been.

[@RamonG60]

Ist shameful like they did it to the dodo ...I can cry about destroying mother earth and his animal's

[@carlelliter1532]

This is a sad story.

[@vamcorpenterprises]

0:04 i thought he said "british captain, jon tron"

[@rolfwelsch8570]

human is an ignorend beast.

[@arefeshghi]

This video just shows how stupid humans can be!

[@JohnScutter-s5j]

Not Las Malvinas. The Islanders do not want to be part of Argentina. The first recorded landing 1690, was by an English ship.

[@PalmersTradingPost]

Humans are so evil. Why do we destroy all these wonderful and unique creatures. It's pathetic. 😢

[@thedannybseries8857]

Evil is a meaningless word

[@manolodlospavos]

puzzel fragmented dna together and clone em.

[@rherrera4177]

The early settlers of all continents had very little foresight of their actions. Butcher it, slaughter, shoot

[@koba0798]

grim story. humans not even once

[@retrogaminggenesis6102]

Which islands?

[@thedannybseries8857]

The Falkland Islands 🇫🇰. They’re a British territory in South America

[@jahmah519]

How many species have become extinct because of us, we probably done more than that asteroid, are we the actual thing?

[@Khelim.o]

Now i wonder how penguins taste

[@thedannybseries8857]

I lived in the 19th century and had a nice bite of the Falkland Islands wolf. It tasted great.

[@samrizzardi2213]

"DNA studies confirmed it was a wolf and its closest relative was the maned wolf".... which isn't a wolf....

[@indyreno2933]

Actually, maned wolves are still wolves, wolves and grey wolves are not the same thing, a wolf is any dog that is depicted larger than either a fox, a jackal (including the coyote), or a wild species with the word "dog" in its name, therefore, the Ethiopian Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), Common Golden Wolf (Flavocyon simensis), White Wolf (Canis albus), Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon), Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) are all wolves too, wolves are not a taxonomically defined group of dogs, they are only distinguished from other dogs such as foxes, jackals, and wild species with the word "dog" in their name, usually by their larger body size, wolves are a polyphyletic group as there are living and extinct genera of dogs with species called wolves.

[@samrizzardi2213]

@@indyreno2933 Citation needed (as usual when it comes to you)

[@lukedarsey4134]

@@indyreno2933 thank you for taking the time to explain that. Most people think their specialists in the chat. Some ( u) are... Much appreciated

[@AegleCreations]

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

[@samrizzardi2213]

@@lukedarsey4134 The guy's a hack. Literally no taxonomist recognises "white wolves" and "sea wolves" as separate species, and the Latin name "Flavocyon" is just made up.