Originally published at: What is this weird animal that looks like the unholy offspring of a fox and a wolf but has a mane, long legs, and stinks of weed? | Boing Boing
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Sounds like more people need to get the National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia. They’re right there on page 53! (maybe they flipped right past to the “wolf” page, rookie mistake…)
The caption, if not readable, says: “When hunting, it taps the ground with its front paw to startle prey, then pounces”
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Those are in south America in a tomb Raider game IIRC
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Came here to say “sorry, that was me” - but this is much better
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Does Herschel Walker want to change his vote now? This looks a whole lot more badass than a damn werewolf.
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I know those leggy boys. They are absolutely adorable.
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Of course it looks mysterious when it has been recorded on VHS tape.
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if it can stand on its hind legs that might explain all the rantings about dog-men that you hear from the tinfoil hat crowd.
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I recognized it from my kids watching “Go Diego Go” (a Dora the Explorer spinoff).
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It looks a LOT like I always imagined Gene Wolfe’s alzabo creature to look, from his Book of the New Sun, if perhaps a bit smaller. “Father, let me in!!”
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Also known as “fox on stilts”.
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is a weed fox anything like a cocaine bear?
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That’s where I learned about pink river dolphins!
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Lookit them gams! That thing’s like a sexy hyena.
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That’s a chupacabra. A small one.
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fox on stilts!
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Ah, Lobo-Guará…
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