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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Proailurus, Machairodus, Homotherium, Dinofelis, Pseudaelurus, Falkland Islands Wolf, Javan Tiger, Cryptoprocta spelea, Japanese Sea Lion, American Lion, Bali Tiger, Panthera leo spelaea, Machairodontinae, Marozi, Caribbean Monk Seal, Cape Lion, European Lion, Honshū Wolf, Mexican grizzly bear, Cape Serval, Atlas Bear, Panthera leo vereshchagini, Sardinian Dhole, Newfoundland Wolf, European Jaguar, Hokkaidō Wolf, Prosansanosmilus, Felis lunensis, Panthera leo fossilis, Metailurini, Paramachairodus, Xenosmilus, Sardinian lynx, Giant Cheetah, Sri Lanka Lion, Panthera onca augusta, Panthera onca mesembrina, Dinobastis, Metailurus, Formosan Clouded Leopard, Smilodontini, Eucyon, Machairodontini, Panthera schaubi, Pratifelis martini, Prototocyon, Lynx issiodorensis, Trinil Tiger, Theriodictis, Corsican Wildcat, Protocyon, Eofelis, Panthera palaeosinensis, Panthera pardoides, Panthera youngi, Panthera crassidens, Dinofelis barlowi, Panthera schreuderi, Tuscany Lion, Dinofelis aronoki. Excerpt: The Falkland Islands Wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the Warrah and occasionally as the Falkland Islands Dog, Falkland Islands Fox or Antarctic Wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. This endemic canid became extinct in 1876 (on West Falkland island), the first known canid to have gone extinct in historical times. It was the only modern species in the genus Dusicyon. Traditionally it had been supposed that the most closely related genus was Lycalopex, including the Culpeo (and its domesticated form, the perro Yaghan), which has been introduced to the Falkland Islands in modern times. However, in 2009, research conducted by a scientific team directed by Graham J. Slater at the University of California, Los Angeles, identified the Falkland Island wolf's closest living relative as the Maned Wolf...
