Why it's awesome: If there were a beauty contest for wild canines, the maned wolf would surely be the winner, with its flowing red coat, long legs and large ears. Its name derives from the black ...

The question that kept rattling around my skull this morning was “Why does maned wolf pee smell like marijuana?” This isn’t one of those “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” riddles.

Slinky, a three-month-old brindle mix, was coincidentally taken in by the Kansas Humane Society, a Wichita-based pet adoption and rescue organization, on the same day maned wolf Amora was born at ...