Tiny deer-like species spotted for the first time in 30 years
A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam, a conservation group said Tuesday.
Images of the silver-backed chevrotain, commonly called the Vietnamese mouse deer, were captured in the wild by trap cameras, Global Wildlife Conservation said.
It said the rabbit-sized animal is not a deer or a mouse, despite its nickname, but is the world's smallest hoofed mammal.
They are shy and solitary, have two tiny fangs, appear to walk on the tips of their hooves, and have a silver sheen, the group said.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Good it is nice to know that it survived and that people are making a gesture towards helping it. Especially since humans bombed its homeland to shreds only a few decades ago, in one of their political fall outs, amazing it survived that at all, given that it was already rare.
Fernapple
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Nov 13, 2019
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My thoughts exactly.
It looks like a rat... If I saw it, I'd scream...
Cutiebeauty
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Nov 12, 2019
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I’ve think they’ve mis-identified a Chupacabra - perhaps they’re calling it a “mouse deer” to avoid panic in the general public?
Haemish1
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Nov 12, 2019
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@Sealybobo She?
@starwatcher-al Has big cold feet, women have big cold feet, (Never shared a bed with one ? ) therefore bigfoot is a woman. Perfect logic according to my religious friends.
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