Posted on 04/30/2016 2:51:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Researchers captured images of the short-eared dog in Puno's jungle regions.
For the first time in Peru's history, researchers in the jungles of Puno captured images of an animal that they had long thought to be extinct: the short-eared dog.
Also known as the small-eared fox, or Atelocynus microtis, the animal was photographed by camera traps in the Bahuaja Sonene National Park in the Puno jungle, Southern Peru, reports El Comercio.
The animal's presence had not been detected in the Peruvian Amazon since 1987 and has been on the red list of threatened species of the International Union of Conservation of Nature (UICN) since 2013.
Head of the protected park, David Aranibar Huaquisto, directed the project that led to the findings. He and his team installed 20 cameras to monitor the fuana of the Pampa del Heath section of the Puno jungle.
Peru's National Service of Natural Protected Areas (Sernanp) and Frankfurt Zoological Society-Peru have analyzed the images' data. The results indicate that the specimen's natural habitat coincides with the humid tropical savanna of Pampas del Heath.
And, the animal is a carnivore and frugivore, which makes it an integral part of dispersing seeds and enriching the local ecosystem.
The short-eared dog was first described in 1983 and little is known about it.
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Chupacabra! Chupacabra! ;') Looks a lot like the thylacine, the believed-extinct marsupial "tiger" of Downunder.
[[Short-eared dog spotted in Peru after 30 years]]
My goodness that’s an old dog- in human years that would be 210
you still see reports of thylacines from time to time- there was a video or photo of somethign that looked an awful lot like one- this shortear though seems to have hsorter jaw
Don’t tell obama or they will be extinct.
Yup.
;’)
Global warming cures extinction!
Thanx for the link to the site.
How about the UGLY dog? Strange looking thing.
Chupacabra
Great. It is interesting — frequently animals thought to be extinct, turned out to exist.
So that’s where he went.
I don’t know about the jungle but the Andes mountains are incredible tremendous and even today the Chibchan (Muisca) people still thrive where the Spaniards were unable to find them during the conquest. Doesn’t surprise me much that hey can find long thought exist species at all.
What is the benefit of short ears?
Looks like a horse with a dog face.
Usually short ears are found in cold climates to control heat loss and large ears in animals found in warm climates to dissipate the heat. Dogs dissipate a lot of their heat through their tongues and breath.
Having said that, I have no idea why this critter has short ears. Could have something to do with brush or such.
“The short-eared dog, or the small-eared zorro.”
Small-eared zorro ping
they didn’t say how big it is. guessing fox size?
frugovore. new one for me. had to look that up.
frugovores are animals who are hungry to engage in the 60s dance craze.
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