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[[File:Fuegiens-f3972.jpg|thumb|right|Two Fuegian dogs: Katekita (female) and Tapan (male)]]

The '''Fuegian dog''', or '''Yahgan dog''', or '''Patagonian dog''' ({{lang-langx|es|perro fueguino, perro yagán, perro patagónico}}), is an extinct type of [[Canidae|canid]]. Its ancestry is a matter of scientific debate,{{sfn|Jaksic|Castro|2023}}{{sfn|Jaksic|Zurita|Briceño|Jiménez|2024|p=9}} though traditionally it was thought to be bred and [[Domestication|domesticated]] from the South American [[culpeo]], also known as the culpeo fox (''Lycalopex culpaeus'').{{sfn|Petrigh|Fugassa|2013|p=14}}

There are very few remaining [[Zoological specimen|museum specimens]] or examples of the Fuegian dog; one is at the Museo Salesiano Maggiorino Borgatello in [[Chile]],{{sfn|Jaksic|Castro|2023}} and another is at the Fagnano Regional Museum in [[Tierra del Fuego]], [[Argentina]].{{sfn|Petrigh|Fugassa|2013|pp=14–15}}

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The culpeo itself is similar (in form and stature) to true foxes (tribe [[Vulpini]]), though it is closer, genetically, to wolves, [[Canis latrans|coyotes]] and [[jackal]]s (true canids, tribe [[Canini (tribe)|Canini]]); thus it is placed in a separate genus within the [[South American fox]]es or ''zorros''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lindblad-Toh |first1=K. |last2=Wade |first2=C. M. |last3=Mikkelsen |first3=T. S. |last4=Karlsson |first4=E. K. |last5=Jaffe |first5=D. B. |last6=Kamal |first6=M. |last7=Clamp |first7=M. |last8=Chang |first8=J. L. |last9=Kulbokas 3rd |first9=E. J. |year=2005 |title=Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7069/pdf/nature04338.pdf |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=438 |issue=7069 |pages=803–819 |bibcode=2005Natur.438..803L |doi=10.1038/nature04338 |pmid=16341006 |s2cid=4338513 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

In a review of historical accounts and the current scientific literature, by FabianFabián Jaksic and Sergio Castro in 2023, they argued that the Fuegian dog was in fact two different animals, which they labelled as the Fuegian dog and the Patagonian dog. In their analysis, the ''Patagonian dog'', used by the [[Selk'namSelkʼnam]], [[Aonikenk]], and [[Manek'enkManekʼenk]] peoples, was a domesticated breed descended from the culpeo, whereas the ''Fuegian dog'', used by the [[Chono people|Chonos]], [[Kawesqar]], and [[Yahgan people|Yahgan]] peoples, was descended from an ancestral domestic dog population brought across the [[Bering Strait]].{{sfn|Jaksic|Castro|2023|p=}}

Others have posited the possibility of the Fuegian dog being a domesticated ''[[Dusicyon avus]]'',{{sfn|Jaksic|Zurita|Briceño|Jiménez|2024|p=9}} or a potential hybrid of domestic dogs with either the culpeo or ''Dusicyon avus''.{{sfn|Jaksic|Zurita|Briceño|Jiménez|2024|p=9}}

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==Behaviour==

Although the distribution of the Fuegian dog corresponded with that of the [[Yahgan people]], individual animals may not have been protective of their human owners. According to [[Julius Popper]], theone canidof exhibitedthe aprimary lackperpetrators of loyalty[[Selknam genocide|the genocide]] against the local indigenous population, wrote that: "I never saw them, no matter how large their number, take an aggressive attitude or defend their masters when these were in danger".<ref name="Popper1887">{{cite journal |last=Popper |first=Julio [Julius] |author-link=Julius Popper |title=Exploración de la Tierra del Fuego |language=es |trans-title=Exploration of Tierra del Fuego |journal=Expedición Popper: Conferencia dada en en Instituto Geográfico Argentino el 5 de Marzo de 1887 |date=1887 |___location=Ecuador |publisher=Instituto Geográfico Militar |via=Biblioteca Virtual, Museo del Fin del Mundo}} Text also available in this collected-writings book:<br />{{cite book |last=Popper |first=Julio [Julius] |author-link=Julius Popper |title=Atlanta – Proyecto para la creación de un pueblo marítimo en Tierra del Fuego y otros escritos |trans-title=Atlanta – Project for the creation of a maritime town in Tierra del Fuego and other writings |language=es |url=http://mhdlibros.com/?p=444 |publisher=Editorial Eudeba |___location=Buenos Aires |access-date=September 3, 2020 |archive-date=March 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328004635/http://mhdlibros.com/?p=444 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Uses==

[[File:Selknam cazando.jpg|thumb|Selk'namSelkʼnam hunting together with Fuegian dogs.]]

While [[Julius Popper]] did not observe the dogs being of use in hunts,<ref name="Popper1887"/> Antonio Coiazzi did record their use in hunting and this has been supported by later research.<ref name="Coiazzi">{{cite book |last=Coiazzi |first=Antonio |orig-date=1914 |title=Los indios del Archipiélago Fueguino |language=es |trans-title=The Indians of the Fuegian Archipelago |___location=Punta Arenas |publisher=Atelí |date=1997}}</ref>{{sfn|Alonso Marchante|2019|p=75}} Darwin commented in his 1839 work ''[[The Voyage of the Beagle]]'' that he had been told by a native child that they caught [[otter]]s for them.<ref>{{cite book |last=Darwin |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Darwin |date=1909 |title=[[The Voyage of the Beagle]] |chapter=Tierra del Fuego |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MDILAAAAIAAJ |page=219}}</ref> This was later supported by Martial's reporting.<ref name="Martial 2005"/>

All sources agree that the dogs also provided a source of warmth in shelters as they would arrange themselves to sleep tightly against and around the Selk'namSelkʼnam.<ref name="Popper1887"/><ref name="Coiazzi"/><ref name="Spears">{{cite book |last=Spears |first=John |author-link=John Randolph Spears |title=The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: A study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia |___location=New York |date=1895 |isbn=9-7805-4834-724-9 |page=73}}</ref>{{sfn|Lothrop|1928|pp=59–60}} This was noted by Julius Popper stating: "The dogs placed themselves in a group around the small [[Selk'namSelkʼnam|Onas]], taking the shape of a kind of wrapping&nbsp;.... [M]y opinion is that the Fuegian dogs are only useful to complete the defective garment of the Indian, or better, as the Ona's heating furniture".<ref name="Popper1887"/>

==Extermination==

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In 1919, when Silesian missionary [[Martin Gusinde]] visited the local Yahgans, he noticed that, to his knowledge, all of the dogs seemed to be missing. He immediately noted this as odd, especially considering that the tie between the dogs and the local people was well documented by foreign missionaries and explorers by this time. Indeed, this mutual cooperation allowed for the region to become the only stronghold of this unusual domesticated canine to have ever existed. Upon speaking to the local people and inquiring about what had happened to the animals, he was told that the entire known population of them had been exterminated, and it was claimed they "were dangerous to men and cattle".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gusinde |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Gusinde |title=Expedición a la Tierra del Fuego |language=es |trans-title=Expedition to Tierra del Fuego |journal=Publicaciones del Museo de Etnología y Antropología de Chile |volume=II |number=1 |___location=Santiago de Chile |publisher=Imprenta Cervantes |date=1920 |page=157}}</ref> Apparently, this "fierce" nature of the animal was allegedly witnessed by [[Thomas Bridges (Anglican missionary)|Thomas Bridges]] in the 1880s, who in his writings, purported that the dogs attacked his mission's goats, while giving few specific details.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Orquera |first1=L. |last2=Piana |first2=E. |date=1999 |title=La vida material y social de los Yámana |trans-title=The material and social life of the Yámana |language=es |___location=Buenos Aires |publisher=Editorial Eudeba |pages=178–180}}</ref>{{sfn|Franklin|2022}}

As part of the campaign of the [[Selk'namSelknam genocide]], the dogs were hunted by European ranchers and headhunters due to its use in hunting and home making among the Selk'namSelkʼnam.<ref name="Gigoux">{{cite journal |last=Gigoux |first=Carlos |date=2022 |title="Condemned to Disappear": Indigenous Genocide in Tierra del Fuego |journal=[[Journal of Genocide Research]] |volume=24 |number=1 |pages=1–22 [13] |doi=10.1080/14623528.2020.1853359 |url=http://repository.essex.ac.uk/29322/8/CG%20Article.pdf}}</ref> This was the main cause of their extinction.<ref name="Gigoux"/>

==See also==

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===Works cited===

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* {{cite book |last=Alonso Marchante |first=José Luis |date=2019 |chapter=Cazadores del viento |trans-chapter=Hunters of the Wind |language=es |title=Selk'namSelkʼnam: Genocidio y resistencia |trans-title=Selk'namSelkʼnam: Genocide and Resistance |___location=Santiago de Chile; Catalonia |isbn=978-956-324-749-7}}

* {{cite journal |last=Franklin |first=William L. |date=2022 |title=Guanaco colonisation of Tierra del Fuego Island from mainland Patagonia: walked, swam, or by canoe? |journal=Geo: Geography and Environment |volume=9 |issue=2 |publisher=[[Royal Geographical Society]] |page=e00110 |doi=10.1002/geo2.110}}

* {{cite journal |last1=Jaksic |first1=FabianFabián M. |last2=Castro |first2=Sergio A. |date=2023 |title=The identity of Fuegian and Patagonian "dogs" among indigenous peoples in southernmost South America |journal=[[Revista Chilena de Historia Natural]] |volume=96 |issue=1 |article-number=5 |doi=10.1186/s40693-023-00119-z |doi-access=free |bibcode=2023RvCHN..96....5J}}

* {{cite journal |last1=Jaksic |first1=FabianFabián M. |last2=Zurita |first2=Carlos |last3=Briceño |first3=Cristóbal |last4=Jiménez |first4=Jaime E. |date=2024 |title=The rare Fuegian fox (Lycalopex culpaeus) from the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago: history of discovery, geographic distribution, and socio-ecological aspects |journal=[[Revista Chilena de Historia Natural]] |volume=97 |number=1 |doi=10.1186/s40693-024-00124-w |doi-access=free }}

* {{cite book |last=Lothrop |first=Samuel Kirkland |author-link=Samuel Kirkland Lothrop |date=1928 |title=The Indians of Tierra del Feugo |publisher=[[National Museum of the American Indian|Museum of the American Indian]], Heye Foundation |series=Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian |volume=X}}

* {{cite journal |last1=Petrigh |first1=Romina S. |last2=Fugassa |first2=Martín H. |date=December 13, 2013 |title=Molecular identification of a Fuegian dog belonging to the Fagnano Regional Museum ethnographic collection, Tierra del Fuego |journal=[[Quaternary International]] |volume=317 |pages=14–18 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.030 |url=http://fulltext.study/preview/pdf/1041543.pdf |url-status=dead |bibcode=2013QuInt.317...14P |hdl=11336/25319 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220121042/http://fulltext.study/preview/pdf/1041543.pdf |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |access-date=September 2, 2020}}

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==Further reading==

* {{cite journal |last1=Mayorga |first1=Marcelo |last2=Barrios |first2=Natasha |last3=González‑Lagos |first3=César |last4=Castro |first4=Sergio A. |last5=Jaksic |first5=Fabián M. |date=2024 |title=The iconographic evolution of Patagonian and Fuegian canids |journal=[[Revista Chilena de Historia Natural]] |volume=97 |number=6 |doi=10.1186/s40693-024-00129-5 |doi-access=free}}

* {{cite journal |last1=Silva Rochefort |first1=B. |last2=Root‐Bernstein |first2=M. |date=2021 |title=History of canids in Chile and impacts on prey adaptations |journal=[[Ecology and Evolution]] |volume=11 |number=15 |pages=9892–9903}}

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