ABSTRACT
General biological studies on the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) (Illiger, 1815), particularly on its feeding ecology, have mostly involved captive individuals (Silveira, 1968; Kleiman, 1972; Brady & Ditton, 1979; Garcia 1983; Dietz 1984; Barboza et al. 1994). Few have been done in the wild; Dietz’s (1984) work is the most representative of these and until recently was one of the most complete. Previously, Azara (1801), Goeldi (1893), Krieg (1940), Lund (1950), Cabrera (1958), Langguth (1975), Carvalho (1976), Garcia (1983), and Bartmann and Bartmann (1986), among others, mentioned the feeding habits of the species in short observations or analyses of small amounts of feces or stomach contents, but no systematic study had been done. Dietz (1985), in a review on the biology of the species, made a concise statement on the maned wolf’s diet: “diet consisted largely of fruits and small mammals, and changed with seasonal availability of food.”
