Called Lobo-guará in Portuguese, the maned wolf is a stunning animal. Tall, skinny, with surprisingly long legs, big ears, and a beautiful face, it resembles a fox on stilts. But it is neither fox or wolf - it's its own genus. Marcel has been fantasizing about seeing a maned wolf in the wild since our first trip to Brazil in 2011. Marcel’s so bent on seeing, or somehow photographing this animal, that he spent nearly the entire last weekend before we left for Brazil constructing a hard plastic box to keep his camera in so he could, if allowed, set up a motion-triggered system in Itirapina, which is just an hour from our town.
Marcel wasted no time trying to make that happen. We arrived in Brazil on August 6. On August 13th we received permission to stay at the ecological station bunkhouse and to visit the protected area. By about 10:00 pm on August 15 Marcel’s camera was set up. He was unsuccessful that first night, so we moved the camera on the 16th. On the morning of the 17th we went for a walk along the river corridor at dawn. We saw fresh wolf tracks. We smelled wolf. We found recent scat. But we did not see any wolves. We returned to the car and drove on to where the camera was set up. SUCCESS! Marcel's remote camera set up had captured three beautiful shots of a maned wolf.
We also found very fresh scat which, upon investigation, included the remains of an orange (most likely from a nearby orchard); the fruit of the Solanum lycocarpum plant (sometimes called wolf-apple), which is a tomato-like plant that is one of the wolf’s primary food sources; and, quite surprisingly, a claw and shell fragments from a small armadillo (apparently armadillo are not a common food source for maned wolves).
Called Lobo-guará in Portuguese, the maned wolf is a stunning animal. Tall, skinny, with surprisingly long legs, big ears, and a beautiful face, it resembles a fox on stilts. But it is neither fox or wolf - it's its own genus. Marcel has been fantasizing about seeing a maned wolf in the wild since our first trip to Brazil in 2011. Marcel’s so bent on seeing, or somehow photographing this animal, that he spent nearly the entire last weekend before we left for Brazil constructing a hard plastic box to keep his camera in so he could, if allowed, set up a motion-triggered system in Itirapina, which is just an hour from our town.Marcel wasted no time trying to make that happen. We arrived in Brazil on August 6. On August 13th we received permission to stay at the ecological station bunkhouse and to visit the protected area. By about 10:00 pm on August 15 Marcel’s camera was set up. He was unsuccessful that first night, so we moved the camera on the 16th. On the morning of the 17th we went for a walk along the river corridor at dawn. We saw fresh wolf tracks. We smelled wolf. We found recent scat. But we did not see any wolves. We returned to the car and drove on to where the camera was set up. SUCCESS! Marcel's remote camera set up had captured three beautiful shots of a maned wolf.我们也发现很新鲜粪便,经调查,尸骨的桔子 (最有可能从附近的果园);茄果类 lycocarpum 植物果实 (有时称为狼苹果),这是番茄之类的植物,是狼的主要食物来源;和非常令人惊讶的是,小的犰狳爪和壳碎片 (显然犰狳不是常见的食物来源,为鬃狼)。
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