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A fruit-loving maned wolf complicates carnivory on Bizarre Beasts

Sarah Suta explores an animal whose diet is about half fruit, despite its place in the carnivoran family tree.

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"Carnivore" Is a Spectrum

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0:56The maned wolf is South America's largest canine, with the small bush dog as its closest living relative.
2:15Maned wolves tend to live alone, mark territory with pungent urine and communicate with a roar-bark.
3:43Fruit makes up about half their diet, with wolf apples central to a seed-dispersal relationship involving leafcutter ants.
5:40Membership in Carnivora describes evolutionary relationships, not a requirement to eat only meat.
9:03Broad molars reveal adaptations to the maned wolf's mixed, fruit-heavy diet.
12:02Bonus facts explore the evolutionary connection between maned wolves and the extinct Falkland Islands wolf.

A wolf apple makes an excellent complication for a neat biological label. In Bizarre Beasts' only new upload this week, Sarah Suta introduces a canine that eats plenty of fruit and uses it to untangle what "carnivore" actually means.

""Carnivore" Is a Spectrum" has reached nearly 100,000 views. Its subject, the maned wolf, isn't closely related to either true wolves or foxes. Its closest living relative is the much shorter bush dog. The surprises extend beyond that leggy silhouette: Suta describes solitary habits, a roar-bark and territorial markings with a distinctly cannabis-like smell.

The diet is the heart of the episode. Wolf fruit, also called wolf apple, features heavily, and the animal's broad molars help explain its mixed menu. Belonging to the order Carnivora doesn't require an exclusively meat-based diet. As Suta puts it: "Being an omnivore, then, has way more to do with your ecological role than who you're related to."

Viewers are picking up that resistance to tidy rules, while also swapping maned-wolf sightings and discussing the clip of a black-backed jackal eating melon. Biology's exceptions have plenty of company here.

The new episode is comfortably the channel's busiest video right now. October's Greenland shark and California condor episodes continue to gather smaller audiences. Across the channel, subscribers stayed level at 399,000 over the week, while today's viewing is below its usual daily pace. Its weekly views sit close to those of chemistry educator Melissa Maribel, friendly context for a week built around one unusually fruit-minded canine.

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Not gonna lie, I loved this whole video, but I rewatched the clip with the black-backed jackal and the melon like three times. She was havin' a serious monch.
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"Physics has laws, chemistry has rules, biology has exceptions" ~No idea where I heard that
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"#1 hard rule in nature... no hard rules in nature." - that's a keeper...
@joehopfieldSee it on YouTube
I LOVE maned wolves! If i could only choose 6 animals like pokemon, a maned wolf would be one of them
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that was some top notch narration
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