Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Chrysocyon Baby Pictures

I am putting together the PowerPoint version of my honors thesis to present at our undergrad research forum next week, and so am scrounging Google images for maned wolf pictures. They have miserable reproductive success in captivity (details in the thesis!), so there aren't too many pictures of pups, but this one absolutely melted my heart and I have to share:


Poor kid looks like he already knows his species is on the brink. And look at that little tail! Bless his heart . . .but I think the next one wins the prize . . . who knew your offspring's ears make good toothbrushes?


And some human raised pups:


And one last one, now we know how their legs get so long, baby yoga:


(Image 1 credit, Image 2 credit, Image 3 credit, Image 4 credit)

2 comments:

Zach said...

Adorable!

Guilherme said...

Another problem is that zoos (at least here in Brazil) perform an uncontrolled breeding program that has resulted in a high inbreeding rate among maned wolves here...