Lycalopex culpaeus
Statut de Conservation (Liste Rouge de l'UICN):
Préoccupation mineure (LC)
It looks like a fox, but stands taller, with sharper features and a colder wind in its coat.
The culpeo roams the Andes and open scrublands of South America — alone, alert, and mostly at dusk. It hunts rodents, birds, and carrion, moving with quiet precision across rock and grass. Its fur is thick, greyish-red, its gaze steady. It rarely stays long in one place.
Often misunderstood, sometimes persecuted, but never easily seen — the culpeo survives by keeping its distance. A shadow of the mountains, and a hunter built for silence.
