Animal profile

Maned Wolf

Chrysocyon brachyurus

MammaliaTall grassland, cerrado savannah, scrub forest and marsh edgeNear Threatened

Field profile

The maned wolf is a tall, russet, long-legged canid of South American grasslands, unrelated to either wolves or foxes and the only member of its genus. Its legs raise its eyes above the grass it hunts in. Roughly half its diet is plant material.

Published field notes

2025-06-01

Maned Wolf

Half the maned wolf's diet is fruit

The maned wolf eats about as much plant matter as animal prey, and one fruit in particular. The tomato-like lobeira, sometimes called the wolf apple, appears constantly in its scat, and the animal is a major seed disperser for it.

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