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Volume 39 FEBRUARY 24, 1961 No. 44

On the South American Small-eared Zorro
Atelocynus microtis Sclater (Canidae)

PHILIP HERSHKOVITZ

CURATOR, DIVISION OF MAMMALS

INTRODUCTION

The small-eared zorro is remarkable for its comparatively large
size, somber coloration and small ears, which are relatively shorter
than in any other species of wild dog (fig. 92). Little is known of
the life history of Atelocynus microtis and of its relationship to South
American zorros in general. The advent of two live small-eared zor-
ros at the Chicago Zoological Society park at Brookfield offered the
opportunity for observation of the habits of the species and occasioned
the preparation of this report. The taxonomic portion of the present
study includes descriptions and comparative studies of the skins and
skulls of four specimens, one from Lagarto, Rio Ucayali, Peru, the
second from near the mouth of the Rio Urubamba, Peru, the third
from an unknown locality, and the fourth, a juvenal, from near Puyo,
eastern Ecuador. The above material represents all the living and
preserved specimens of small-eared zorros known to exist in American
institutions.

Thanks are expressed to the authorities of the American Museum
of Natural History and of the Natural History Museum of Michigan
State University for the loan of the aforementioned skins and skulls.
I am indebted to Mr. Robert M. Bean, Director of the Chicago
Zoological Society, Mr. Ralph Graham, Assistant Director, and Dr.
George Rabb, Curator and Coordinator of Research, for permission
to study the animals in their charge. Grateful acknowledgment is
made to the zealous Colombian mammalogist, Sefor Jorge Hernan-
dez Camacho, for his generous contribution of unpublished notes on
small-eared zorros examined by him.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-11185
No. 908 505

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SMALL-EARED ZORROS IN CAPTIVITY

The first small-eared zorro known to science was purchased by
the Zoological Society of London in September, 1882. The animal
was described and figured by Sclater (1882, p. 631, pl. 47) under the
name Canis microtis. After it died, it was preserved as a study speci-
men and deposited in the British Museum (Natural History). The
next published record lists two males exhibited in the Zoological
Gardens of Parad, Brazil. One of the dogs originated in the State
of Amazonas, the other in Salgado, Castanhal, a locality on the
Braganca Railroad in Para. The preserved skins and skulls of the
animals were the subjects of reports by Hagmann (1901, p. 509),
Goeldi and Hagmann (1904, p. 64), and Studer (1904, p. 114; 1905,
p. 33).

The first North American institution to exhibit a live small-eared
zorro was the New York Zoological Society. According to informa-
tion kindly supplied by Lee S. Crandall, Curator Emeritus of that
institution, the dog was registered in May, 1930, and died one year
later. It is presumed to have been captured in the Amazonian region.
A photograph of the animal appears in an article on dogs by Gregory
(1983. p. 95).

A live specimen exhibited in the Schonbrunner Tiergarten and
described by Antonius (1933, p. 250, figs. 5, 6) was the first to reach
Germany. The dog originated in the Rio Tapajoz region, Para,
Brazil.

The photograph of a live, apparently tame individual in an en-
closure, perhaps somewhere in Rio de Janeiro, is reproduced by
Santos (1945, p. 170, fig. 47). The Brazilian name, Cachorro-do-mato-
de-orelhas curtas, used by Santos, means “‘short-eared bush dog.”’

The male Atelocynus microtis now living in the Chicago Zoolog-
ical Society park was received in July, 1957, from Dr. José Borrero,
ornithologist, and Sefor Jorge Hernandez Camacho, mammalogist,
of the staff of the Instituto de Ciéncias Naturales in Bogota, Colom-
bia. According to Senor Hernandez (in litt.), the dog came from the
neighborhood of Mitt, a locality on the Rio Vaupés, Colombia, near
the Brazilian border. It was captured by Indians, probably before
being weaned, and taken to Bogota in early 1956, when less than
full-grown. Hernandez also informs me that another small-eared
zorro, a female, brought alive to Bogota from the Rio Ariari, Meta,
died a few days after arrival. A third specimen, from Restrepo,
Meta, now mounted in the Instituto de La Salle, Bogota, was also
identified by Sr. Hernandez as Atelocynus microtis. In addition to

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Fic. 92. Aielocynus microtis; male in foreground, female behind. The large
head, short ears, curling tongue, exposed upper incisors and bushy tail extending
to ground are characteristic. Animals in Brookfield Zoo. (Photograph by Dr.
H. H. Stranskov.)

the first-mentioned male, the Chicago Zoological Society secured a
female small-eared zorro in March, 1958. The country of origin of
this individual is unknown. The two animals may be the first pair
of the species to be exhibited alive in a zoological garden.

No doubt many other examples of small-eared zorros have been
kept in zoological gardens, or as pets, or are preserved as museum
study specimens but have not been recorded in the literature.

HABITS

The male small-eared zorro in the Brookfield park of the Chicago
Zoological Society is exceedingly docile and friendly. Senior Hernan-
dez informed me that the dog was shy during the early part of his
captivity in Bogota but in time became very tame, permitting him-
self to be petted and hand fed by persons he recognized. In addition
to raw meat, the dog accepted the common food of the people. Occa-
sionally he ate shoots of Kikuyo grass (Pennisetum clandestinum).
When the dog was angry or frightened, he growled, bared his tusks

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and even attempted to bite. The Schénbrunner animal recorded by
Antonius (1933, p. 252) also manifested hostility by growling or snarl-
ing. However, no unfriendly actions have been observed in the dog
at the Brookfield Zoo. Hernandez also noted that in Bogota the dog
never sat on his haunches or stood with his tail curved between his
hind legs. Both postures, however, are routinely assumed by the
animal in Brookfield. He lost none of his docility in Brookfield and,
if anything, has become tamer. He quickly learned to recognize
keepers and regular visitors and very obviously enjoyed being the
object of attention. He was quite playful and never attempted to
bite or even gnaw gently on the offered hand as friendly domestic
dogs often do. Eventually he responded to petting by rolling over
on his back and squealing with delight.

In his typical posture the animal stands with head lowered, fore-
legs slightly spread apart, hind legs with heels turned inward, feet
pointed outward, tail curved back against the outer side of a hind leg,
with the tip curled upward. This position of the tail, also noted by
Hernandez and described by Antonius (1933, p. 251, fig. 6) keeps the
terminal hairs from trailing (fig. 93).

The tip of the zorro’s tail is particularly sensitive. When first
observed, the dog twitched his tail slowly on the approach of certain
people. This movement was not made in response to being fed or
petted. In time, however, the dog learned to react to attentions from
familiar people, particularly his regular keeper, by a weak but unmis-
takable wagging of the posterior half of his tail. The hairs of the tail
can be erected when the animal is excited. This character, according
to Antonius (1933, p. 251), justifies the name “‘flag-tailed wild dog’’
applied to the dog by the natives of the Tapajoz region. The move-
ments of the dog, like those recorded for the Schénbrunner animal,
are marked by a cat-like grace and lightness not observed in any
other canine.

The male in Brookfield is always enveloped by a strong musky
aroma secreted from his anal glands. The odor is evidently emitted,
or intensified, when the dog senses the approach of people or hears a
sudden sound such as the slamming of a door or the ery of another
animal.

The sleek pelage of the dog suggests that the animal either has
more than casual aquatic habits or is specially adapted to regions of
high rainfall. Another feature of the dog is the remarkably bright
glow of his eyes in dim light. In the bright beam of a hand torch,
the eyes shine with a pale green brilliance. The normal color of the

Fic. 93. Atelocynus microtis. Upper, male in typical posture with tail athwart.
Note luminescence of eye in indoor daylight. (Photograph by Dr. José Borrero.)
Lower, male. Photograph taken by Dr. Frederick Medem in Bogota before ani-
mal was shipped to Brookfield.

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iris is hazel. The upper canines are impressively long, their tips
projecting outside the closed mouth for about half a centimeter.

The female small-eared zorro at Brookfield was definitely hostile
at the time she was received and her disposition has never changed.
She regards people with suspicion and when under direct observation
emits a continuous growling or snoring sound without opening her
mouth or baring her teeth. The female is nearly one-third larger
than the male. Her body is more lithe and her head is heavier, with
the muzzle proportionately thicker and longer. She is colored like
the male and her movements and postures, whether standing, sitting
or prone, are quite like those of her companion when he is not playful.
The odor from her anal glands is hardly noticeable, but her eyes shine
as brightly in dim light as those of the male.

The female was introduced into the cage of the male in April,
1958. I did not observe the event and no record was made of the
first reaction of the dogs to each other. To date (January, 1960)
there has been no indication that mating has been attempted and
the female shows no signs of pregnancy.

The male, though smaller, asserts dominance in most activities.
Frequently, the male and female take turns eating from a common
food dish. More often, however, the male persists in eating directly
from the dish while the female waits or snatches morsels with which
she retires to eat at a distance. Sometimes these roles are exchanged
but for a much shorter period of time before the male reasserts his
dominance. Asa rule, the male sates himself first and the female
eats what is left, which is always ample. Competition between the
dogs for the food is usually accompanied by their peculiar snarling
sound. Some snapping but no biting or fighting between the dogs
has been observed.

During periods of inactivity, the zorros occupy a common sleep-
ing box. The male habitually lies in the corner that is open to the
outside while the female beds down in the hidden portion.

TAXONOMY

The following synonymy includes bibliographic references to all
original contributions to our knowledge of the small-eared zorro.

Atelocynus microtis Sclater

Canis microtis Sclater, 1882, Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1882: 631, pl. 47 (ani-
mal); Mivart, 1890, A monograph of the Canidae, p. 62, pl. 47 (animal)—
description and measurements ex type; Goeldi and Hagmann, 1904, Bol.

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Mus. Goeldi (Paraense), 4: 64—Brazil (Amazonas; ‘“‘Salgado (Castan-
hal),’’ Para [?]); Miranda Ribeiro, 1914, Commiss4o de linhas telegraph-
icas estratégicas de Matto-Grosso ao Amazonas, Ann. 5, pp. 27, 29, pl. 9
(skull)—Brazil (Palmares, Rio Sepotuba, Mato Grosso); Antonius, 1933,
Zool. Gart., 6: 250, figs. 5, 6 (animal)—Brazil (Rio Tapaj6z, Par4).

Cl{anis] microtis, Mivart, 1890, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1890: 110, 113, fig. 5
(skull), fig. 6 (dentition); Studer, in Goeldi and Hagmann, 1904, Bol. Mus.
Goeldi (Paraense), 4: 110, 113, 114, pl. 1, fig. 5, pl. 2, fig. 4 (skull).

Canis aff. microtis, Hagmann, 1901, Zool. Anz., 24: 509 (two specimens listed).

[Canis (Thous)] microtis, Trouessart, 1897, Cat. Mamm., fase. 2, p. 307—
classification.

[Canis (Cerdocyon)| microtis Trouessart, 1904, Cat. Mamm., Suppl., p. 234.

Cerdocyon microtis, Pocock, 1914, Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1914: 920, fig. 5
(feet and rhinarium); Cabrera, 1931, Jour. Mamm., 12: 62—classifica-
tion (Canis microtis Sclater not a homonym of Canis microtus Reichenbach,
1846).

Clerdocyon| microtis, Thomas, 1914, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), 13: 356 (name
not preoccupied by microtus Reichenbach; comparison with C. mimax).

Lycalopex microtis, Studer, 1905, Mitteil. Naturf. Fr., 1904: 33, fig. 1 (animal),
figs. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 (skull)—-characters, comparisons, and taxonomic history.

Dusicyon (Dusicyon) microtis, Osgood, 1934, Jour. Mamm., 15: 47, 49 (char-
acters and classification)—Peru (Lagarto, Rio Ucayali, Loreto).

Dusicyon (Cerdocyon) microtis, Vieira, 1955, Arq. Zool., Sao Paulo, 8: 446—
Brazil; Carvalho, 1957, Bol. Mus. Paraense Emilio Goeldi, (n.s.), Zool.,
no. 6, p. 16-—Brazil (Seringal Oriente, upper Rio Jurua, Acre).

|Atelocynus] microtis, Cabrera, 1940, Not. Mus. La Plata, 5, Zool., no. 29,
p. 14—type of genus Atelocynus Cabrera, loc. cit.

Atelocynus microtis, Cabrera and Yepes, 1940, Mamiferos Sud-Americanos,
p. 130, pl. 17, fig. 2 (animal); Orcés, 1944, Flora (Quito), 5: 65—Ecuador
(Allpa Yacu, Rio Suno, upper Rio Napo, Napo-Pastaza); Orcés, 1947, Bol.
Inst. Botanico, Univ. Central, Quito, 5 (6-7), p. 252—Ecuador (Allpa
Yacu, Rio Suno); Vieira, 1948, Bol. Mus. Paraense, 10: 259—Brazil (Joao
Pessoa, upper Rio Jurué, Amazonas); Hershkovitz, 1958, Nov. Colom-
bianas, Mus. Hist. Nat. Univ. Cauca, no. 3, p. 160—Colombia (Mitt, Rio
Vaupés, Vaupés) (characters); Cabrera, 1958, Rev. Mus. Argentino Cience.
Nat. “Bernardino Rivadavia,”’ 4, (1), p. 237 (listed).

Dusicyon (Atelocynus) microtis, Paula Couto, 1950, in Lund, Mem. Paleo.
Brasil., Rio de Janeiro, footnote pp. 398-399—classification.

“Canis” microtus [sic], Gregory (not Reichenbach), 1933, Bull. New York
Zool. Soc., 36: 88, fig., p. 95 (animal).

[Carcinocyon] sclateri J. A. Allen, 1905, Rep., Princeton Univ. Exped. Pata-
gonia, 1896-1899, 3, (1), p. 153 (classification and new name for Canis
microtis, “preoccupied” by ‘‘Canis microtus Reichenbach, 1834 [sic]”’
[=1846]).

C{anis] thous sclateri, Ihering, 1910, Arch. Naturg., (76), 1, (2), p. 146—classi-
fication; Ihering, 1911, Rev. Mus. Paulista, Sao Paulo, 8: 219—classifi-
cation.

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Lycalopex spec., Kiihlhorn, 1940, Arch. Naturg., n.f. 9: 206, fig. 9 (head),
p. 221 (locality)—Brazil (Pedra, Rio Pardo, Mato Grosso); Kihlhorn,
1955, Siugetierk. Mitt., 3: 78—Brazil (Rancho Pedra, Rio Pardo, Mato
Grosso).
Lycalopex [sp.], Krieg, 1948, ““Zwischen Anden und Atlantic,” pp. 226 (figure
of head), 420—Brazil (Pedra, Rio Pardo, Mato Grosso).
Type.—Adult, sex unknown, skin and skull, British Museum
(Natural History).
Type locality.—‘‘The Amazons’’; restricted to the south bank of
the Rio Amazonas, Para, Brazil, by Hershkovitz (1958, p. 160).

Distribution (fig. 94).—Tropical zones of the Amazonian basin in
Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, thence into the upper Rio Ori-
noco basin in Colombia (fide Hernandez, in litt.) and, no doubt,
Venezuela; also recorded from the upper Rio Parana basin in Mato
Grosso, Brazil; altitudinal range from near sea level to approximately
1000 meters above.

CHARACTERS

External.—Size moderately large, limbs slender, head highly
arched, ears rounded and extremely short; tail thickly haired, dark
but with lateral fringe and under side of basal portion pale, terminal
brush black, sometimes with a few white hairs, and sweeping ground
when hanging straight down in the standing animal. Pelage of
head and body short, stiff, adpressed; general body color grizzled
brown or blackish without contrasting pale or bright parts on head,
limbs and under parts of body; cheeks, forehead, throat and neck
brown or blackish finely ticked with gray or pale buff; chin, upper
surface of snout, dark brown; a blackish streak present beneath each
eye; ears brown or rufous on outer side, whitish to buffy on inner side,
average height from notch 6 (5-7) per cent of combined head and
body length; dark mid-dorsal band well defined on nape, weakly de-
fined on back, and forming a thick band of erectile hairs on tail; a
narrow blackish collar weakly defined in living animal, nearly obso-
lete in dry skin; brownish or rufous under parts not well defined from
sides except for whitish or buffy area of pubic region; individual
cover-hairs of upper parts of body grayish basally, ringed brown
suprabasally, pale buff, gray or white subterminally and dark brown
or black terminally; guard-hairs like cover-hairs but bands wider, the
dark terminal portion elongated; wool hairs gray, buff or pale brown,
the tips usually darker.

Cranial (figs. 95-98).—Sagittal crest extending as a high convex
ridge from posterior portion of frontals to lambdoid; supraoccipital

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crests well developed, the lateral ridges coalescing with the sagittal
crest to form a Y-shaped bifurcation, the angle directed forward
(fig. 95); mid-frontal region convex or plane in transverse outline,
without marked depression or trough between the two bones; supra-
orbital region narrow, the distance across the processes (in three
males) from 65 to 77 per cent of greatest width of braincase; postero-
lateral frontal inflations obsolete; nasals comparatively short, broad
in front, evenly tapered behind and not extending beyond plane of
fronto-maxillary suture; front of orbit situated on a level between
front and middle of first molar (fig. 96); maxillary above carnassial
plane or convex, not forming a shallow depression between anterior
and posterior roots of tooth; masseteric ridge of molar high, the sur-
face of bone beneath as wide as or wider than the surface above.
Exposed ventral portion of presphenoid extremely narrow, the lat-
eral wings little developed (fig. 97); bony meatus of auditory bullae
short; bullae well inflated, the distance between them less than the
greatest transverse width (excluding bony meatus) of either; coronoid
process of mandible subtriangular in outline (fig. 98); elevation of
angular process above base of ramus evenly graduated, not abrupt;
depth of angle less than length of pm;; posterior border of condylar
process situated on a level with or slightly behind posterior border of
angle; combined depth of angle and condylar process one half or less
of depth of mandible measured at coronoid process.

Dental.—Canines well developed, length of exposed portion of up-
per more than combined length of m+ 2 and subequal to postorbital
constriction (fig. 97). First upper molar heavy, nearly as wide as
long; outer alveolar length of upper carnassial equal to alveolar length
of first molar plus approximately one-half that of second molar; alve-
olar length of lower first molar greater than combined alveolar lengths
of second and third; I* short, not caniniform and not projecting be-
yond line of inner incisors, median cuspule well developed in unworn
tooth, lateral cuspule low on cingulum; outer cuspule of I* half way
up crown, inner cuspule near cutting edge; outer cuspule of I* near
cutting edge, inner cuspule absent in the permanent but present in
the deciduous tooth.

Measurements.—See Table 1.

Molt.—The male, transported by airplane from the cool climate
of Bogota (altitude, 2614 meters) to typical July weather in Chicago
with a two day stop en route in Miami, was molting on arrival in
Brookfield. The old hair was being shed from all parts of the body
except the limbs at the same time that the new coat was becoming

514 FIELDIANA: ZOOLOGY, VOLUME 39

established. During molt, oily granular crusts of sloughed skin gather
in small clumps at the base of falling hairs. Molt was completed in
about three weeks. The male molted again in late March, 1958.
New pelage is short, stiff, shiny and unctious.

Remarks.—The ground color of the three tanned hides of the adults
is grizzled brownish; ground color of the two live animals examined
and of live animals figured and described by others is grizzled black-
ish. The difference in coat color in prepared skins and live animals
may be caused partly, if not wholly, by the tanning process and sub-
sequent deterioration of tissues.

An immature female (Michigan State University Museum no. 3722)
with all milk teeth in place and first molars deep in their sockets is
grizzled blackish on dorsal surface and sides, dark brown on legs, chin
and upper surface of tail. The color and texture of the pelage appear
to be quite adult-like. The diagnostic characters of its skull are also
like those of adults except for the masseteric ridge of the malar which
is scarcely developed and is placed low, the section of the bone
beneath narrower than the section above.

Rudimentary preorbital glands mentioned by Antonius (1933,
p. 252) as possibly present in the Schénbrunner Tiergarten animal
are not evident in any of the specimens examined by me. In the
Brookfield dogs, and commonly in dogs in general, black crusts of
sloughed skin form small, gland-like boluses in the preorbital de-
pression.

COMPARISONS AND SYSTEMATIC POSITION

The small-eared zorro cannot be confused with other known
canids. It bears no close resemblance to any variety of domestic
dog or to wolf- or fox-like types of wild dogs. Its short ears and color
pattern are unique; certain of its cranial characters, taken singly,
others in combination, are diagnostic; in the live animal the mien,
gait and relaxed stance or posture are distinctive. Among Neotrop-
ical dogs, Atelocynus is absolutely exceeded in size only by the strik-
ingly peculiar maned “‘wolf,’’ Chrysocyon jubatus. The Andean and
Patagonian culpeo, Dusicyon culpaeus, equals, and in some races may
average larger than, the short-eared zorro. The common zorro or
crab-eater, Dusicyon thous, 1s appreciably smaller, but very old males
are nearly as large as young adults of Atelocynus microtis.

Many of the important diagnostic characters of the small-eared
zorro were noted by Osgood (1934, p. 48). This authority, neverthe-
less, treated the dog as a species of Dusicyon somewhat annectant

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between the typical section of this genus and the subgenus Cerdo-
cyon. On the other hand, Cabrera (1940, p. 14) appraised the com-
bination of the distinctive characters of the animal as of generic
value. He thereupon erected the genus Atelocynus for the small-
eared zorro. Cabrera’s judgment was based on a skull collected by
Miranda Ribeiro (1914, p. 41) in the Mato Grosso. Available evi-
dence sustains his conclusions.

The genera of true Neotropical zorros, namely, Atelocynus Ca-
brera, Chrysocyon Hamilton Smith, Urocyon Baird, and Dusicyon
Hamilton Smith (includes Lycalopex Burmeister and Cerdocyon Ham-
ilton Smith) are closely related inter se. Each genus except Dusicyon,
with about nine species, is monotypic. All are members of the sub-
family Caninae and each differs about as much from another as any
one differs from typical Canis.! The remaining genus of Neotropical
dogs, the small semiaquatic Speothos Lund, is very different but no
less a member of the Caninae. Earlier workers included Speothos
with the Symocyoninae (ef. Simpson, 1945, pp. 109, 223). As shown
by Thenius (1954, p. 377), this classification cannot be sustained.

1Includes Dasycyon Krumbiegel (1949, Umschau Wiss. Tech., Stuttgart, 9:
590, 764; 1953, Saugetierk. Mitt., 1: 97). The generic name is founded on a fur
dealer’s pelt purchased in Buenos Aires and described under the preoccupied gen-
eric name Oreocyon hagenbecki. Krumbiegel’s figure of a life-like reconstruction of
the animal is misguided and his comparison with the very dissimilar Chrysocyon
jubatus, misleading. The creditable portions of the description of hagenbecki point

only, as already indicated by Cabrera (1958, Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat., 4:
230), to a large domestic sheep dog.

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