This taxidermy was being sold as a dingo:
We rarely come across dingo taxidermy mounts and are proud to carry great specimens at a great price. The dingo is a free-roaming dog mainly found on the continent of Australia. The dingo has several names in both scientific and non-scientific literature, like of which the word “dingo” is the most common term, but also include “dingoe” and “wild dog”. Who do you know that has a Dingo? Want one? Sign up for our Wish List!
The big problem is that this specimen is not a dingo!
In fact, it’s something even rarer than a dingo, which is a feral domestic dog.
It is an Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis), which is a critically endangered canid that is found in the Ethiopian Highlands.
Because it’s such an endangered species, the legality of selling such a specimen is certainly suspect, and it’s certainly worth a lot more than an old dingo mount.
But this isn’t the first taxidermy taxonomy fail I’ve covered on this blog. A few years ago, I went after an ad that was selling a gray fox taxidermy as a kit fox.
One would think that people who deal with these sorts of specimens would have an idea about the exact identity of the creatures that it is selling.
But I guess not.
This site has the exact same specimen for sale as a coyote. Mysterious.
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Must be using clip art. It would be next to impossible to get an Ethiopian wolf mount for private sale.
Actually, to my surprise, they’re not listed by CITES, even though they’re red-listed by IUNC. So maybe it wouldn’t be illegal to sell a taxidermy or a skin, at least not if they didn’t actually kill one but found one dead. I wish that some zoos with the space and experienced personnel would partner with the Ethiopian government to form at least a few captive breeding groups. As far as I know there aren’t any in captivity, anywhere.