Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men “frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.”

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dusicyon_australis/

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    17 days ago

    It really is sad. There are animals I would have loved to see that were driven to extinction by entirely man made forces. It’s heinous. I want to give that nice wolf pets 😟

    Also, non-vegans shouldn’t be allowed to get mad over this tbh.