They added that the canids were "larger, more slender and sometimes with a more whitish colouration".

他们还说这种犬科动物较一般金豺“更大，更苗条，有时毛色也更淡”。

He dubbed them foxes, and was the first of many scientists to suspect that the strange canids weren't wolves at all.

他把它们称为狐狸，并且在许多科学家中首先怀疑，这种奇异的犬科动物根本就不是狼。

At that time, maned wolves lived in North America, and it seems that all of South America’s canids originated in the north.

在那时，鬃狼生活在北美洲，而且看来南美洲的犬科动物好像都起源于北方。

Because canine distemper also affects wildlife populations, contact between wild and domestic canids may facilitate spread of the virus.

因为犬瘟还影响野生动物，野外犬科动物和家犬之间的接触会加大病毒的散播。

What was once another one of the wild social canids, the grey wolf, has been altered radically, to the point that it has become its own unique animal.

还曾有一种群居性的野生犬科动物——灰狼，已经发生了急剧的变化并形成另一种独特的动物。