What is Culpeo?
{{Speciesbox | name = Culpeo | image = Culpeo MC.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn|author=Jiménez, J. E.|author2=Lucherini, M.|author3=Novaro, A. J.|name-list-style=amp|year=2008|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6929/0|title=''Pseudalopex culpaeus''|access-date=18 June 2012}}</ref> | genus = Lycalopex | species = culpaeus | authority = ([[Juan Ignacio Molina|Molina]], 1782) | range_map = Culpeo area.png | range_map_caption = Culpeo range }} The '''culpeo''' (''Lycalopex culpaeus''), is a type of [[South American]] [[fox]]. It is the second-largest native canid in South America. It has grey and reddish [[fur]], a white chin, reddish legs and a stripe on its back.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6929/0 |author=Jiménez, J. E.; Lucherini, M. & Novaro, A. J. |date=2008 |title=Pseudalopex culpaeus}}</ref> The culpeo eats [[rodents]], [[rabbits]], [[birds]] and [[lizards]]. It also eats a little bit of plants and [[carrion]]. The culpeo attack [[sheep]] sometimes and is therefore hunted or poisoned. In some places, the culpeo is rare, but overall the [[species]] is not threatened with [[extinction]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-851555-5 |author=Macdonald, David Whyte; Claudio Sillero-Zubiri |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-19-851555-5 |title=The Biology and Conservation of Wild Canids}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Foxes]] [[Category:Mammals of South America]]