Guest Videos — Canids of Latin America: Bush Dogs

Our guide closes its list with two groups of “foxes” (actually Lycalopex and Urocyon — see note in the crab-eating fox post).

However, Speothos the Bush Dog deserves more than a passing mention, and it’s also closely related to last week’s maned wolf.

But no two relatives ever looked so different from one another!

Here is the Smithsonian Channel on bush dogs, complete with sound effects:

They’re weird and kind of adorable, but the way they hunt is absolutely terrifying.

Otters, which are caniforms, have the nickname “wolves of the river,” but Speothos actually is a river wolf!

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It looks rather like a little bear, too. Could there ever be such a thing as a beardog?

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Some lagniappe:

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Featured image: Bernard Dupont, CC BY-SA 2.0