Lycalopex туқымдасы: Зорролар және олардың эволюциясы

Genus of carnivores
Automatic taxobox
| name = Lycalopex
| image = Genus pseudalopex. jpg
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| display parents = 2
| taxon = Lycalopex
| authority = Burmeister 1854
| type species = Canis magellanicus
| synonyms = * Pseudalopex
Canis (Pseudalopex)
| subdivision ranks = Species
| subdivision = * Lycalopex culpaeus
Lycalopex fulvipes
Lycalopex griseus
Lycalopex gymnocercus
Lycalopex sechurae
Lycalopex vetulus
† Canis (Pseudalopex) australis The Vorohué Formation of Argentina has provided older fossils, dating to the Uquian to Ensenadan (Late Pliocene).

The common English word "zorro" is a loan word from Spanish, with the word originally meaning "fox". Current usage lists Pseudalopex (literally: "false fox") as synonymous with Lycalopex ("wolf fox"), with the latter taking precedence. In 1895, Allen classified Pseudalopex as a subgenus of Canis, establishing the combination Canis (Pseudalopex), a name still used in the fossil record.

The zorros are hunted in Argentina for their durable, soft pelts. They are also often labelled 'lamb killers'. In his diary of his well known 1952 traveling with the young Che Guevara, Alberto Granado mentions talking with seasonal workers employed on vast sheep farms, who told him of a successful campaign by the ranch owners to exterminate the foxes who were preying on lambs. The ranchers offered a reward of one Argentinian peso for the body of a dead male fox and as much as five pesos for a female fox; to impoverished workers in the early 1950s, five pesos were a significant sum. Within a few years, foxes became virtually extinct in a large part of Argentina. The Fuegian dog (lang es), also known as the Yaghan dog, was a domesticated form of the culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), unlike other domesticated canids which were dogs and silver foxes. This means different canid species have been domesticated multiple times by humans independently.