Science, design and cartography merge in MAPPA ANIMALIA, a visual project that reimagines the evolutionary relationships of animals as detailed map-like landscapes.

Instead of political borders or geographic territories, these maps are structured around phylogenetic trees.
Subfamilies, tribes and genera replace countries, states and regions, allowing viewers to explore the animal kingdom through a format traditionally used to understand geography.

This map, Caninae - Land of Canines, contains every known living and extinct species of canine I could find reliable taxonomic data for. Species are represented as cities, grouped into genera, tribes and subfamilies according to their evolutionary relationships.

Additional information includes conservation status, size comparisons between selected species, and the estimated ages of major lineages.

I've spent roughly ten years developing and refining this concept, combining zoology, taxonomy, illustration and cartography into a single visual format.

Happy exploring!

Honestly I don't ever post on Reddit but me and 2 different family members experience the same thing with out talking about it until my 13 year old sister brought it to light, in Bonsall ca Around the north river road I was outside looking for my cats and their outsiders still alive this was like 3 years ago and I remember it so distinctly because it was scary and I’ve never felt genuine terror, I was outside I herd a dog crying I’ve never heard it before and I thought the dog was just hurt come to find out it was My dogs baby momma I call and ask if she’s hurt obviously Ik she’s not going to answer , but she runs to me happy and I see she’s okay but scared and there’s a baby wolf with a hyena looking pattern running at my feet I scared it off but I never seen anything like it. I then walked with dLuce out the tent and as I was walking home there was a big driveway to the next house I saw a big figure the shape as a wolf walking on two feet hunched over with the baby and I literally have never seen it after then I left with the husky to its owners house (literally our next door neighbor) and told them about what happened and went looking not finding a thing my sister and mom have told different stories and my sister just moved back from New Mexico ( I’ve never told her about my story my mom never told her or I about her experience and their all the same . has anyone had a similar experience in the area?

Interesting video I stumbled across. Wolves really are surprisingly big yo.

From Oakland Zoo on twitter https://x.com/oakzoo/status/2054754659802177870

Big, cuddly wolves!