Comments on: The Origin of the Friendly Wolf that Confused Darwin

By: Alex Fairchild

Alex Fairchild — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:42:23 +0000

So during an ice age, you can walk from Buenos Aires to the Falklands. Yup.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:05:55 +0000

The animal Darwin hit with his geological hammer wasn’t the Falklands wolf, but Darwin’s fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) from Chiloe island off the coast of Chile. That animal is now the type specimen, housed in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London.

By: Kai Reiner

Kai Reiner — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:57:42 +0000

In his diaries, Darwin explicitly wrote that he sneaked up behind it and hit it with his geological hammer on the head. So unless he lied, he indeed killed it. (Oh and he called it a fox). It is a curious passage, cruel, but unintendedly funny.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:44:01 +0000

This is something i haven’t read before. Interesting.

By: Katla Kristjánsdóttir

Katla Kristjánsdóttir — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:52:00 +0000

The arctic fox was the only mammal to predate humans in my home country (Iceland). It’s cool when essentially the same thing happening on opposite ends of the world.