Enigmatic Falklands ‘fox’ might have hitched a ride with humans
3 years ago 1 min read
When Europeans first reached the Falkland Islands in 1690, they found a fox-like animal now called the warrah. Less than 200 years later, it had been hunted to extinction. But how did it get there in the first place? There has been little evidence that humans lived on the islands, which lie east of southernmost South America, before 1690. Nor is there evidence of an ice bridge that the animals could have crossed from the mainland millennia before.
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