The Warrah also known as the Falklands Islands Wolf was a species of Canid first known to go extinct due to colonisation by the British, Spanish, French and the Dutch explorers.. This endemic Canid to the Islands was noticeably tame and friendly which made it easy for the colonisers to kill the island wild due to fear of it killing their new inhabitants: introduced Sheep for farming. This story is not isolated.. the killing and extinction of Canids all over the world is due to fear and persecuti