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Other Wild Canids Called 'dogs'

In South America, there are wild canid species which are commonly called 'dogs' in English. These are Atelocynus microtis, "the small-eared dog"; and Speothos venaticus, 'the bush dog'. They are not very closely related to each other and are even more distantly related to true dogs than African and Indian wild dogs.

Not as easily mistaken for a true dog is the wild raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides, a quite primitive wild canine native to the Far East named for the fact that it looks as if it were a cross between a dog and a raccoon. It is more distantly related to true dogs than any other canid.

  • small-eared dog

  • The bush dog

  • Japanese raccoon dogs

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