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Amazon’s Elusive Short-Eared Dog May Be More Common than Researchers Once Thought


Hundreds of camera-trap records from Bolivia and Peru suggest the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis), one of the world’s least-known canids and one of Latin America’s least-known carnivores, may be thriving in intact upland forests.

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