Lycalopex fulvipes

Lycalopex fulvipes is the name of the fox of Darwin or fox chilote, a child cánido endemic of the south of Chile. His hair is of dark gray color to black, with reddish spots concerning the ears and half notes in his paws. The natives were naming him by Payneguru, which means 'blue fox' in language huilliche. The name of the genre, Lycalopex, leeway of the Greek terms lykos, ‘wolf‘, and alopex, ‘fox‘.

It is a solitary mammal except in the epoch of baby, when the couples join. It feeds principally on small marsupials, rodents, birds, reptiles, insects and pine nut kernels of araucaria, in addition to seafood and marine algae in the area sides. Charles Darwin was who captured and studied the first copy in 1834, during his second visit to the Chilean island of Chilo é, where still there lives the biggest population of this species (not more than 500 copies) in the araucarias forests. Also Darwin foxes survive in the coastal mountainous area of the National park of Nahuelbuta (80). Not in vain, the UICN places it in the category of Critical Danger.