Study gathers over 4,000 photos to find Bolivia’s rarest Amazonian dog

Mongabay
May 19, 2026, 11:04 am274 ptsTop
It has a fox-like snout, webbed toes and a thick tail. It’s called the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis), but also the ghost dog (perro fantasma in Spanish) in Bolivia, and the Amazonian dog. It’s one of the world’s least-known canids and one of the least frequently sighted carnivores in Latin…

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