Crab-eating dog - Crab-eating dog (English spelling) Common zorro

Japanese: カニクイイヌ(蟹食犬) - カニクイイヌ（英語表記）common zorro

A primitive carnivorous canine mammal with a body shape roughly halfway between that of a raccoon dog and a fox. It lives in forests and grasslands on the forest edges from Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil to northern Argentina. It is 60-80 cm long, with a tail about 30 cm long. Its fur is short and gray-brown, and it has a prominent black line running down the midline from its neck and back to the tip of its tail. Its ears are black with rounded tips. The lower parts of its limbs and snout are dark. The underside of its body is light in color. Compared to a fox, its snout is shorter and its tail is thinner. It is nocturnal, going out alone or in pairs, and preying on mice, lizards, frogs, insects such as grasshoppers, and crabs, as well as fruit such as figs, strawberries, mangoes, and bananas.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

タヌキとキツネのほぼ中間の体型をした原始的な食肉目イヌ科の哺乳類。コロンビア，ベネズエラ，ブラジルからアルゼンチン北部までの森林と林縁の草原にすむ。体長60～80cm，尾長約30cm，体毛は短く灰褐色，首，背から尾の先端まで正中線を走る顕著な黒線がある。耳介は先がまるく黒色。四肢の下部と吻（ふん）は暗色。体の下面は淡色。キツネに比べ吻が短く，尾が細い。夜行性で1匹または1対で出歩き，ネズミ，トカゲ，カエル，バッタなどの昆虫，カニなどを捕食するほか，イチジク，イチゴ，マンゴー，バナナなどの果実も食べる。

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