Short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis)

Status: Data deficient (2004)

Species Account: (376 K)

Other Names: English: short-eared fox, small-eared dog, small-eared zorro; French: renard à petites oreilles; Portuguese: cachorro-do-mato -de-orelhas-curtas; Spanish: perro de monte, perro de orejas cortas, zorro negro, zorro ojizarco; Indigenous names: Ayo reo: divequena Chiquitano: nomensarixi; Guayaro: cuachi yaguar; More: quinamco; Niman, Moseten: achuj jhirith; Siriono: ecojoix; Tsimane: achuj foij (Bolivia), Kaiabi: awari (Brazil); Yucana: uálaca; Huitoto: urúbui; Yebá masá o Barasana: búyaíro; Bora: .

Reports/Papers:

Rare dog search meets with success, then tragedy (2002)

Relevant Links:

Projects: Ecology and conservation of short-eared dog and Conservation and ecology of the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis),a rare wild canid of the Amazon basin (Manu National Park, Peru)

Estacion Biologica Cocha Cashu

(photo of short-eared dog)

Short-eared dog - (c) Pitman and Swarner