Falkland Islands wolf

The Falkland Islands wolf, Dusicyon australis, also known as the warrah, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands and became extinct in 1876. It was the type species of the genus Dusicyon and a tawny canid with a white tail tip, found on both West and East Falkland. Its closest known relative was the mainland Dusicyon avus, from which it diverged only about 16,000 years ago, while DNA studies link it most closely to the living maned wolf. Without native rodents on the islands it probably lived on seashore scavenging, ground-nesting birds, seal pups and insects. Charles Darwin found it tame and predicted its disappearance. Settlers hunted it for its fur and poisoned it as a threat to sheep, and only about a dozen museum specimens survive.