Elusive Wild Dog Caught on Camera in Surprising Place
New camera trap pictures reveal bush dogs north of Panama for the first time.
Bush dogs run through the forest in a rare image taken by a camera trap in the Talamanca Mountains.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF JOSÉ F. GONZÁLEZ-MAYA, DIEGO A. GÓMEZ-HOYOS, AND JAN SCHIPPER
By Carrie Arnold
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Jan Schipper was hoping for jaguars as he reviewed grainy photographs from camera traps set up around Costa Rica’s Talamanca Mountains.
What the biologist saw instead floored him: A short, stocky carnivore that is rarely seen and wasn’t even known to live in the country.
He had captured the first images of the bush dog north of Panama—and at the highest elevation ever, more than 4,900 feet above sea level. (See a rare Amazon jungle dog caught on video.)
“We had been putting so much effort into finding something that was incredibly rare that when we finally got the image, it was like Christmas,” says Schipper, field conservation research director at the Phoenix Zoo.
More:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/bush-dogs-animals-rare-costa-rica/
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I love finding info. I haven't seen, and I'm starting to learn just how unbelievably little I have ever known! So little it's actually nothing. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_dog
They are about the size of house cats and their barks sound like my dogs' squeaky toys, but unlike cats they hunt in packs so they can take down animals larger than they are.
I hope these bush dogs can be protected.
When I saw the name, "Bush Dog" I was reminded of George W. Bush carrying Mrs. Beasley off airplanes, and across the White House lawn. He might have enjoyed trying to carry one of these real Bush Dogs around with him.
The Wiki. link indicated these little dogs range from Central America to Peru, which was amazing. That's a lot of territory.
At some point it seems inevitable their paths cross with the Andean Mountain Cats, who also live in Peru, Chile, etc.:
More images of Andean Mountain Cats:
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB8paYdyBaOg8ASNCLuLkF;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNTc0ODMEX3IDMgRiY2sDZWFlcjdmOWNnbDI5ZyUyNmIlM0Q0JTI2ZCUzRGZFVE9PSzFyWUgzS3VfNWJGaWk4THF3a19jX3JYc19ya1E2azM1dGQ0N2NwM1EtLSUyNnMlM0RkayUyNmklM0Q2YjlEbFJub3NFY25ERDNpMDFuSgRmcgMEZ3ByaWQDbERXcWQ4YnpSMkNEaDZqNkZzUnJKQQRtdGVzdGlkA251bGwEbl9zdWdnAzgEb3JpZ2luA2ltYWdlcy5zZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMwBHBxc3RyAwRwcXN0cmwDBHFzdHJsAzIwBHF1ZXJ5A0FuZGVhbiBNb3VudGFpbiBDYXQgBHRfc3RtcAMxNTEyMDc3MjExBHZ0ZXN0aWQDQjQyNjE-?gprid=lDWqd8bzR2CDh6j6FsRrJA&pvid=oIfJ9TEwLjHlO2d6WQqJMA35MjYwMgAAAADo4bYt&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&p=Andean+Mountain+Cat+&ei=UTF-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp#id=15&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fphotos.mongabay.com%2Fj%2Fandeancat.568.jpg&action=close
Thank you for providing more information on these interesting little creatures.
Many more Bush Dog images:
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB8pbGeyBaICgAieeJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsZ29xY3ZzBHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEc2xrA2J1dHRvbg--;_ylc=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-?gprid=Zlfpej4DRLi6.Vd1_Oco7A&pvid=P2e_GzEwLjHlO2d6WQqJMA8FMjYwMgAAAAAopZZQ&p=Bush+dogs&fr=sfp&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt#id=19&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F3c%2F05%2Ff3%2F3c05f364d5e74b0ec97aa7146c19c66c.jpg&action=close