page_title: Fuegian dog
hierarchical_section_title: Fuegian dog
caption_attribution_description: Illustration of a Fuegian dog from the Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the Southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Rare Books
context_page_description: The Fuegian dog, also known as the Yaghan dog, is an extinct domesticated fox. It was a domesticated form of the culpeo, unlike other domesticated canids – domestic dogs, domesticated from the gray wolf, and the domesticated red fox, from the red fox.
  There are very few remaining specimens of the Fuegian dog. These include one in the Museo Salesiano Maggiorino Borgatello in Chile, and another in the Fagnano Regional Museum in Tierra del Fuego.
context_section_description: The Fuegian dog (Spanish: perro yagán, perro fueguino), also known as the Yaghan dog, is an extinct domesticated fox. It was a domesticated form of the culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), unlike other domesticated canids – domestic dogs, domesticated from the gray wolf (Canis lupus), and the domesticated red fox, from the red fox (Vulpes vulpes).
  There are very few remaining specimens of the Fuegian dog.  These include one in the Museo Salesiano Maggiorino Borgatello in Chile, and another in the Fagnano Regional Museum in Tierra del Fuego.
caption: Fuegian dog
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