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"Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth" Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Darwin is traveling in the Falkland Islands and comes across the this "wolf-like fox" that is tame enough to take food from the hand of a gaucho (who then stabs it).
Of course, Darwin was right. The Falkland Islands Fox went extinct in 1876.
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