World's Loneliest Wolf | Falkland Islands Wolf

The Falkland Islands Wolf went extinct in 1876. Even though we know how it perished, how it ended up on Falkland Islands is still a mystery…
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Falkland Island Wolf Specimen by Kane Fleury / Otago Musuem Licensed Under CC BY 4.0
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Falkland Island Wolf Specimen by Kane Fleury / Otago Musuem Licensed Under CC BY 4.0
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Sheep on Falkland Islands by Kuhnmi Licensed Under CC BY 2.0
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Maned Wolf by Sage Ross Licensed Under CC BY 3.0
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Patagonians at Gregory Bay via Wellcome Images Licensed Under CC BY 4.0
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[@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!

[@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

[@ohianaw]

the fact it was the only endemic land mammal is sad

[@00dreamer00]

Imagine getting hunted to extinction. Scary af

[@wxlfmurdr]

Yea and the only ones who deserve it is humans.

[@robertsansone1680]

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

[@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

[@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

[@NaniFatimana]

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

[@dickdastardly5534]

Yet another animal eliminated by man - very sad and predictable 😟the stuffed remnants look so pitiful what a true shame for this innocuous animal.

[@ZaidFrmDa922]

White man*

[@dickdastardly5534]

@@ZaidFrmDa922 in this case perhaps but he Maori eliminated the Moa’ birds on New Zealand so not sure that race is the real issue here but if it makes you feel superior go ahead knock yourself out.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

@@ZaidFrmDa922 racist comment.

[@myhell7993]

I am still mad that we killed all the mammoths.

[@myhell7993]

@@ZaidFrmDa922 must have irrefutable proof of this to assume. But what else would a racist say

[@walitytoking72]

The same fate of tasmanian tiger

[@Mizt_Plays]

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

[@user-nacv-8867]

Nice video. Thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@AegleCreations]

Thanks!

[@user-nacv-8867]

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

[@FazendaBarrancoAlto]

Excellent, thank you!

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@beachboy0505]

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

[@johnroy2567]

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

[@tpk-all-day9111]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[@darylholloway4]

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

[@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 :)

[@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:😮‍💨

[@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

[@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...

[@naveensilva7671]

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

[@RamonG60]

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

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@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?

[@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.

[@johnmurdoch8534]

Why not clone a pop of these

[@Skypad00]

I'm so angry about their extinction.

[@aprilguyguyon9169]

Nice infos. on new animals of othet countries but i don't vote for people of the past who are too greedy enough to hunt to extinction animals they presume to be harmful to them i hope lots are still surviving today

[@arefeshghi]

This video just shows how stupid humans can be!

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

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

[@Khelim.o]

Now i wonder how penguins taste

[@koba0798]

grim story. humans not even once

[@xThisThingHerex]

why do they kill everything..

[@jase123111]

Because they are selfish and greedy humans with no heart.

[@xThisThingHerex]

It's disgusting

[@greatplainsman3662]

We

[@xThisThingHerex]

@@greatplainsman3662 speak for yourself.

[@greatplainsman3662]

Everything is everyone's else fault. Must be a democrat.

[@jahmah519]

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

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Man our ancestors were really awful people

[@greatplainsman3662]

Our ancestors? We're still awful people.

[@michaelcraig9449]

So they are all killed off by now or what? Any left anywhere?

[@AegleCreations]

All gone…

[@lucykelly7152]

Poor, sweet, innocent animals! Hunters and farmers killed off another wildlife species, there!

[@Myjacob99]

man i really hate humans friendly animals always die to them because they arent tainted like us

[@kevingruenofficial]

I hate humanity. We're sill repeating this disgusting trend.

[@porculizador]

Politically, you make it sound like the British discovered the Falklands in 1690 when in reality they have been on maps and guides since 1502. Biologically, the DNA study from 2009 you referred to does indeed show that the closest relative to the Falkland wolf is the maned wolf, but that doesn't make it a wolf since both "wolves" are not wolves at all --the native name for the animal, warrah, is probably the best possible name for it since it leaves no room to confusion. Other relatives include the bush dog and the false foxes of South America. Geographically, the Falkland Islands are part of the continental platform of South America and are therefore part of the mainland, even though they're islands. They're close enough for natives to have traveled to them thousands of years ago. Indeed, archeologically, they found piled bones that were food remains on the islands going back over 10,000 years; so the likelihood of the warrah arriving on the islands with humans is high.

[@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.

[@porculizador]

@@indyreno2933 No, buddy... Maned wolves are not wolves. When it comes to common names there are many misnomers because there are no rules, but it is generally accepted that wolves are in the genus Canis --all canids you mentioned in the genus Canis can be called wolves including the domestic dog, but foxes, false foxes, warrahs, bush dogs, raccoon dogs, etc are not wolves because they're in a different genus.

[@samo6083]

@@indyreno2933 You've got it confused. Named a few grey wolf subspecies there. The sea wolf is still under the grey wolf species and so is the pale footed wolf. Basically grey wolves are the majority of wolves on earth. The only thing you named that isn't apart of the grey wolf species is the red wolf, ethiopian wolf and golden wolf. The rest are sub species of the grey wolves

[@samo6083]

@@indyreno2933 and no manned wolves are not classed as wolves either. Nice try tho

[@indyreno2933]

@Sam O, actually, the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) has only eleven extant subspecies, including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris), other subspecies traditionally conspecific with the grey wolf have actually been relocated to different species names, the Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon) has two subspecies, the Columbian Wolf (Canis crassodon columbianus) and the Vancouver Island Wolf (Canis crassodon crassodon), the White Wolf (Canis albus) has seven extant subspecies, the Tundra Wolf (Canis albus albus), the Arctic Wolf (Canis albus arctos), the Hudson Bay Wolf (Canis albus hudsonicus), the Mackenzie River Wolf (Canis albus mackenzii), the Baffin Island Wolf (Canis albus manningi), the Greenland Wolf (Canis albus orion), and the Barren-Ground Wolf (Canis albus tundrarum), and the Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon) is revealed to be a distinct species with two known subspecies, the currently living Algonquin Timber Wolf (Canis lycaon lycaon) and the extinct Manitoba Wolf (Canis lycaon griseoalbus), and the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) has two extant subspecies, the Arabian Wolf (Canis pallipes arabs) and the Indian Wolf (Canis pallipes pallipes), interestingly, the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus (cladistically including the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris))) is actually the most basal extant representative of the Canis genus, while the White Wolf (Canis albus), Sea Wolf (Canis crassodon), and Eastern Wolf (Canis lycaon) are all more closely related to the Red Wolf (Canis rufus), while the Pale-Footed Wolf (Canis pallipes) is more closely related to the New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis hallstromi) and the Dingo (Canis dingo) (collectively known as oceanian wild dogs), interestingly, the common golden wolf and ethiopian golden wolf are actually most closely related to each other and do not fall under the Canis genus anymore, both species are reclassified into the genus Flavocyon, with the scientific names of the common golden wolf and ethiopian golden wolf being Flavocyon lupaster and Flavocyon simensis respectively, in fact, the golden wolves (genus Flavocyon) are classified within the subtribe Canina (Old World Wolf-Like Canines), however, they are not a sister taxon to the Canis genus, golden wolves are instead a primitive offshoot that is more derived than the other African genera Lupulella (African Jackals) and Lycaon (Painted Dogs), but is basal to the Cuon/Prolupus/Canis clade.

[@paupau9508]

Las islas Malvinas son Argentinas

[@bradleyrobinson7552]

False:"Humans only arrived in the new world 20 thousand years ago."

[@dogbark8388]

Darn humans always ruin everything 😣

[@tarakb7606]

Human greed and stupidity. Plus ça change.....

[@barend4803]

Dreamer Darwin.

[@Interdiction]

Humans eh .We need billions less

[@marcoqueme2868]

Now I'm sad

[@technoyamraj]

It's MALVINAS Islands ✌️

[@nd7908]

Introduce new fox for the iland . Stabilize the eco system

[@chrislecky710]

As long as you're the kind of person who can create things to keep yourself occupied,, YES!!!! lonely hurts a lot less than the alternative,,,,,,, ,IE more of the same ugly that created the issues to begin with,,,, no thanks....

[@spookyduzit]

😥

[@PNWhiker-r1v]

About it’s diet you said it ate reptiles… theres no reptiles on the islands

[@codenamekhyzer5014]

Thanks to people that time they extinct hehe sadly we human are the worse predator in this planet 😔✌️ peace.

[@samsmith4597]

And nz

[@aryantiwari1297]

How much the human is dangerous for nature.

[@Hello-hz7gj]

Mostly White people

[@waragque]

​@@Hello-hz7gjΒΙαскs too.

[@patrickjahries934]

Could It possibly be resurrected?

[@theotheseaeagle]

@@meadow-maker DNA from skin samples etc etc

[@skatedd2451]

Oh man is so selfish

[@tayebizem3749]

Why Just why

[@leftistnazicensorship8882]

humans brought them then died starved to death.

[@samsmith4597]

Heaps of inaccurate facts.

[@Drskopf]

It was carried by Spaniards sailors.. !!

[@drill_fiend1097]

Whenever I hear European farmers killed spectacular animal for “killing the livestock,” my blood boils… ughhhh!

[@464528]

The Falklalvinas are bolivian

[@ApeX-pj4mq]

This is a first for me to see lmao

[@Mikey5781]

It’s fall-k-land not fawk-land

[@qolspony]

Europeans 😨😡

[@theotheseaeagle]

Racism towards people from europe

[@qolspony]

@@theotheseaeagle No. Racist and Unnatural to anything that is not white human.

[@qolspony]

Whenever you guys refer to an invasive species, the European is at the top of this catagory.

[@keebone]

The first settlers of the Americas many thousands of years ago were an invasive species from Asia.

[@rolloxra670]

You mean humans?

[@theotheseaeagle]

@@rolloxra670 don’t worry these people are either racist or just trolling

[@Dinosaurprince]

Oh boy, feel guilty for something people did 200 years ago. Let’s just ignore the shit, the companies we are working for now have done and continue on do. Don’t blame me, I need a pay check, right?

[@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

[@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 ^^;;

[@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.

[@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.

[@artawhirler]

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

[@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

[@nathanandsugar5252]

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

[@pef1960]

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

[@zaneninjago410]

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

[@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.

[@harunyoldash]

İnteresting topic and great presentation. Love your videos.

[@AegleCreations]

Thank you!

[@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.

[@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

[@keerthi321]

Yup Europeans being Europeans.

[@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.

[@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

[@BeAniEbOii1]

Falk me! What an interesting pronunciation

[@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:😡😡😡🤬🤬

[@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.

[@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.

[@spiritoflegend7483]

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

[@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).

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

Yet another truly unique species eradicated by humans.

[@rolfwelsch8570]

human is an ignorend beast.

[@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.

[@klausuhlig7141]

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