The omnivorous diet of the Maned Wolf includes a wide variety of plant material and animal matter, including fruits, arthropods and small- to medium-sized vertebrates
Just to confirm, the two species do share the same space. When I took this photo last summer I saw one Maned Wolf and one Giant Anteater and there certainly didn't appear to be any kind of barrier separating the two.
Just to confirm, the two species do share the same space. When I took this photo last summer I saw one Maned Wolf and one Giant Anteater and there certainly didn't appear to be any kind of barrier separating the two.
Phoenix Zoo also had this mix (maybe still do) years ago. I only saw them together once, perhaps a decade or more ago. All subsequent visits had maned wolf only with anteaters nowhere in sight, even though the sign for both was still on the exhibit and Ituri reported seeing both together in this time frame. I will be making my first visit to Phoenix Zoo in over two years the day after tomorrow, so I will look into the current situation.
I guess people sometimes are confused by the "wolf" in the name of the maned wolf, but as I've mentioned before it's really better described as a fox on stilts. The maned wolf-giant anteater mix has been done quite a number of places without major problems and the anteater is generally the dominant species. In other words, if there were issues it would likely be the security of the maned wolf and for this reason alone the exhibit probably has to be fairly large for the zoo to do it. The mix has been discussed before on zoochat (one place even mixed maned wolf and capybara):
