Everything about Andean Wolf totally explained
| species =
D. hagenbecki
| binomial =
Dasycyon hagenbecki
| binomial_authority = (Krumbiegel, 1949)
| synonyms =
Oreocyon Krumbiegel, 1947
}}
The
Andean Wolf, or
Hagenbeck's Wolf (
Dasycyon hagenbecki) is a mysterious
canid from the
Andes. In
1927 Lorenz Hagenbeck obtained a
pelt from a dealer in
Buenos Aires, and was told that it came from the Andes. Dr. Ingo Krumbiegel researched this skin in
Germany in
1940, and said that it belonged to a new and still indescribable species from the high peaks of the Andes.
Upon learning in
1947 that when Hagenbeck had bought the pelt there had been three others just like it, Krumbiegel connected it with a
skull he'd discovered about ten years earlier that was 31 centimeters long and had belonged to an
omnivorous canid. The size precluded it from belonging to a
Maned wolf, since Maned wolf skulls are smaller (about 24 cm). He published a description of the animal and gave it its scientific name.
In
1960, scientists discovered that the
fur had belonged to a
domestic dog (possibly that of a
shepherd), not to a wild dog from the Andes. A
2000 attempt at
DNA analysis of the remaining pelt at Munich’s zoological museum proved unsatisfactory because it was contaminated with human,
dog, wolf, and
pig DNA. The pelt had also been chemically treated. The skull had allegedly been lost in
1945, during
World War II, and couldn't be proven a
hoax.
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