Jungle Pup
A short-eared dog carries its puppy through the forest. These series of pictures are likely the first of their kind.
Exclusive: Jungle Puppies Captured on Film for the First Time
A new effort to catalog animals in Peru's rain forests has captured some incredible footage of a rarely seen canine.
Tambopata, PeruA dark, medium-size dog walks straight toward the camera as we flip through photographs, plopped in a small clearing carved into a jungle in southeastern Peru.
“Short-eared dog!” Daniel Couceiro says excitedly. An ecologist working with the ecotourism company Rainforest Expeditions, Couceiro is on a mission to find out as much as he can about the animals whose lives are ordinarily hidden from human eyes.
One of the rain forest’s most elusive inhabitants, the short-eared dog evades all but a few stubborn scientists. In fact, walking these Amazonian trails, you’re much more likely to see a jaguar—or just about anything, really—than one of these canines.
That’s why using automated camera traps, as Couceiro is doing, makes sense.
Over a few weeks
