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The Maned wolf is by all accounts a bizarre creature. Nicknamed a fox on stilts,it is perhaps best known for its once-heard-never-forgotten roar-bark.A single look at this strange and rather scruffy creature, with its bobbing gait and bat-like ears — with the body of a wolf, face of a fox, legs of a deer, and urine that smells like marijuana
and you might be left puzzled as to why you’ve never heard of it.Classified as Near Threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Maned wolf dwells mostly in the Cerrado — the vast savanna of Brazil, though it is also found in the pampas of Peru, and the scrub lands of Paraguay and northern Argentina.The current population of Maned wolves is estimated at 17,000 mature individuals, with the majority of the population — more than 90 percent — in Brazil, says the . In the last decade or so, the species’ main habitats have been subject to intense deforestation. In addition to habitat loss, the species is subject to other serious threats, including road kills, direct persecution by humans, and disease due to contact with domestic animals.