They eat seasonally abundant fruits and vegetables as well as small mammals such as rodents, rabbits and insects. Native habitat: Maned wolves are omnivorous eaters and primarily solitary hunters.Their eyes and ears open by day nine, their ears stand upright and they will take regurgitated food by week four, the pelage changes from black to red by week 10, they are weaned by 15 weeks, and their bodies have the proportions of adults at one year, at which time they reach sexual maturity.A litter usually can contain one to five young, but average about two.
Gestation is similar to that of other canids and lasts approximately 65 days.The male and female are known to share a territory, but are generally solitary and only come in contact during mating season.Maned Wolves live in monogamous pairs sharing a territory.Maned wolves have a thick red coat, long black legs, and tall, erect ears.Young are born weighing 340 to 430 grams and develop quickly.She is now the president of Tompkins Conservation and a UN Environment Patron of Protected Areas.Ī 501(c)(3) public charity, Tompkins Conservation carries out conservation projects through the nonprofit network of Rewilding Chileand Rewilding Argentina.Maned wolves live in the South American grasslands and scrub forests (Cerrado) of Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay, eastern Bolivia and southeastern Peru. After Doug lost his life in a tragic kayaking accident in 2015, Kristine has continued to build on their foundation. Changing course in the early 1990s to focus on conservation, they became two of the most successful conservation philanthropists in history. Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and Douglas Tompkins (1943-2015) founded Tompkins Conservation after leading iconic American clothing brands-Kristine as longtime CEO of Patagonia Inc, and Doug as co-founder of The North Face and Esprit. This also means helping to build robust communities that benefit from a healthy natural world. The goal is to restore a healthy planet with big, wild, and connected landscapes where animals and plants can thrive. Working with public and private partners, the organization has helped to create 13 national parks, protecting 14.5 million acres. In 2020, Rewilding Argentina collared the first specimen in the Rincón del Socorro nucleus of the Iberá Park, followed by three more in 2021.Ī driving force to curb the worldwide climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis, Tompkins Conservation protects, rewilds, and defends land and marine ecosystems in the Southern Cone through collaborating to create national parks and rewilding key species. VHF radio collars are helping to provide these new insights. In order to learn more about the maned wolf, researchers at Fundación Rewilding Argentina started a satellite monitoring project of specimens of the species in the Iberá Park, Corrientes, to provide more information about the species’ reproduction, feeding, and use of the territory. It promotes climate stability, prevents biodiversity loss, and keeps pandemics at bay.” She emphasizes, “Wherever species have been lost due to human factors, we need to do all that we can to recover and protect their remaining populations and restore them to the places where they have been lost. According to Kristine Tompkins, president of Tompkins Conservation and UN Patron of Protected Areas, learning more about this elusive species is crucial to complete and healthy ecosystems. In grasslands and wetlands, the maned wolf helps control populations of small and medium-sized species and acts as a disperser of seeds, but little is known about many aspects of its behavior.
In Argentina, the remaining population of this beautiful creature is catalogued between vulnerable and endangered. But the species’ distribution has been radically reduced as it loses habitat to development and agriculture, is persecuted by poachers, hit by cars, and attacked by domestic dogs. Rewilding Argentina, the strategic partner of Tompkins Conservation, has registered the birth of three pups of this rare species in Iberá Park, a protected wetland of 1.7 million acres in Northeast Argentina where many native species, including jaguars and macaws, are being recovered.Īn elusive animal that’s rarely sighted, the maned wolf ( Chrysocyon brachyurus) is the largest canid species in South America.
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