Elusive Bush Dog Caught on Camera in Panama
Elusive Bush Dog Caught on Camera in Panama
Jan 20, 2016 04:00 PM ET // by Discovery News
A little-seen canid from Central and South America, whose precise distribution remains just as elusive, has popped up in a camera trap study.
The animal in question is the bush dog (Speothos venaticus), a 1-foot-tall (at the shoulder) creature that runs in packs of up to 10 and lives primarily in tropical forests.
Its diet consists mainly of rodents, with the occasional armadillo thrown into the mix.
Its population distribution, meanwhile, remains something of an unsettled question. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers the animal's range to be widespread, from extreme eastern Central America and northern South America south to Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
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