Just chillin’

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A worker from Rome’s Biopark zoo holds Testudo Kleinmanni hatchlings, an endangered species also known as Egyptian tortoises, in Rome May 22, 2007. The offsprings are the hatchlings of several Egyptian tortoises that were rescued from a smuggler’s suitcase in 2005 at Naples airport, southern Italy, by Italy’s forestry police and were entrusted to Rome’s main zoo. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

Me want.

“There’s no time to explain! Get in the car!”

Photo via Life With Cats

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The maned wolf is the largest canid in South America. It is also the tallest wild canid in the world, its stilt-like legs a useful adaptation for spying prey over the tall grasslands where it lives. Despite its name, the maned wolf is not a wolf at all, nor is it a fox, coyote, or dog. It is the only member of the Chrysocyon genus, making it a truly unique animal, not closely related to any other living canid. One hypothesis for this is that the maned wolf is the last surviving species of the Pleistocene Extinction, which wiped out all other large canids from the continent. 

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Photo taken by Sean Crane in Brazil.

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