What it eats: Omnivorous diet, including small mammals, birds, reptiles, eggs, sugarcane, bulbs and fruits. Why it's awesome: If there were a beauty contest for wild canines, the maned wolf would ...

Although it looks like someone mixed up the DNA for a deer and a fox, South America's native maned wolf is neither. In fact, the animal isn't even a part of the family that it is named after. Instead, ...

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