National Geographic: One of the Amazon rain forest's most elusive inhabitants, the short-eared dog, has been caught on video in southeastern Peru.
About the size of a fox, these jungle canines are incredibly difficult to spot. In fact, a journey to the Amazon is far more likely to yield a jaguar sighting than a glimpse of a wild short-eared dog. In late May, 2014, conservation biologist Lary Reeves set up a camera trapnear a white-lipped peccary carcass. Wanting to record what he'd heard was a "king vulture fiesta"...