• The bush dog was long considered extinct, known only from fossil remains found in Brazil. It was not observed in the wild because the animals are highly elusive.

Bush dogs are found in the Neotropics, Afrotropics, Australasia, and Palearctic biogeographical realms, inhabiting Bolivian yungas, wet forests of Kaketa, wet forests of the Guiana Highlands, wet forests of the Guiana foothills, wet forests of Napo, and wet forests of Solimões-Japurá.