Tag: Island dwarfism

Cozumel-Fuchs – Zwergfuchs auf der Insel Cozumel (Urocyon sp.)
In September 2023, the first photo was taken of a dwarf fox living on the island of Cozumel. Image: Rafael Chacón, aus Bayer et al. (2026), Neotropical Biology and Conservation, CC BY 4.0 (cropped, edited)

Cozumel fox photographed for the first time: not extinct after all

On the Mexican island of Cozumel, a living Cozumel fox has been documented in photographs for the first time. The record is extraordinary because this dwarf island form from the gray fox genus was previously known with certainty only from subfossil bone finds. Although there had been individual sighting reports

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Jagdgesellschaft um O. Vojnich mit totem Bali-Tiger
Hunting party of Baron Oszkar Vojnich (Oscar Voynich) with kill Bali tiger in 1911. (© O. Vojnich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Bali Tiger

A colonial victim of hunting tourism Shortly after the Indonesian island of Bali came under Dutch colonial rule in 1908, the first photographs were taken showing white men in linen suits with pith helmets, half-naked islanders and killed Bali tiger. The Hungarian Baron Oszkar Vojnich is said to have killed

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Honshu Wolf Canis lupus hodophilax
An illustration of the Honshu wolf created between 1833 and 1850 by Philipp Franz von Siebold. (© Carl Hubert de Villeneuve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Honshū Wolf

Island dwarfism led to the smallest subspecies of the wolf The extinct Honshū wolf, which was only found on the Japanese islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, is considered the smallest subspecies of the wolf. Its body length was about 90 centimeters, and its shoulder height was 56 centimeters. The

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