![]() ![]() Unlike other wolves that live in cooperative breeding packs, the maned wolf is primarily solitary (10). Scavenging on road-kill also occurs and free-ranging chickens are frequently stolen from farms (8). The maned wolf's main source of food is the tomato-like lobeira fruit, which grows throughout its range and is thought to provide medicinal aid against the giant kidney worm, Dioctophyme renate (1) (5). The diet consists of a wide variety of fruits and small mammals, such as armadillos and rabbits, but also includes occasional pampas deer ( Ozotoceros bezoarticus), birds, reptiles, insects, fish and arthropods (1). The maned wolf hunts primarily at night, and during dusk and dawn hours, while the days are often spent resting, often in areas of thick bush cover (5). Key Reproductive Features: gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate) sexualĪverage age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female) Wild maned wolves are rarely seen with their pups. Non-captive maned wolves give birth in natal nests hidden by thick vegetation. Their eyes and ears open by day nine, their ears stand upright and they will take regurgitated food by week four, the pelage changes from black to red by week ten, they are weaned by 15 weeks, and their bodies have the proportions of adults at one year, at which time they reach sexual maturity. Young are born weighing 340 to 430 grams and develop quickly. A record number of seven has been observed. A litter usually contains one to five young. Gestation in captivity is similar to that of other canids and lasts approximately 65 days. The estrous lasts for a period of one to four days. Breeding season is probably controlled by photoperiod captives copulate between October and February in the Northern Hemisphere and between August and October in South America. Little is known about the reproductive patterns of wild maned wolves. Maned wolves are monogamous, though males and females tend to live independently except during the breeding season. ![]()
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