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Silver-Backed Chevrotain, With Fangs And Hooves, Photographed In Wild For First Time
November 11, 2019 4:47 PM ET
BILL CHAPPELL
Nearly 30 years after its last documented sighting, a silver-backed chevrotain was spotted by a camera set up in the forest of southern Vietnam.
Southern Institute of Ecology/Global Wildlife Conservation/Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research/NCNP
The silver-backed chevrotain a mysterious animal that's the size of a rabbit but looks like a silver-splashed deer has been photographed in the wild for the first time. The chevrotain is the world's smallest hoofed mammal, or ungulate.
Scientists say they have rediscovered a type of chevrotain that had been "lost to science" for nearly 30 years.
"They are shy and solitary, appear to walk on the tips of their hooves and have two tiny fangs," says Global Wildlife Conservation, which helped back the project that recently tracked down the elusive animals in southern Vietnam.
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November 11, 2019 4:47 PM ET
BILL CHAPPELL
Nearly 30 years after its last documented sighting, a silver-backed chevrotain was spotted by a camera set up in the forest of southern Vietnam.
Southern Institute of Ecology/Global Wildlife Conservation/Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research/NCNP
The silver-backed chevrotain a mysterious animal that's the size of a rabbit but looks like a silver-splashed deer has been photographed in the wild for the first time. The chevrotain is the world's smallest hoofed mammal, or ungulate.
Scientists say they have rediscovered a type of chevrotain that had been "lost to science" for nearly 30 years.
"They are shy and solitary, appear to walk on the tips of their hooves and have two tiny fangs," says Global Wildlife Conservation, which helped back the project that recently tracked down the elusive animals in southern Vietnam.
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Silver-Backed Chevrotain, With Fangs And Hooves, Photographed In Wild For First Time (Original Post)
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Dec 2019
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IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)1. Wow, reminds of the fictional jackalope
except this chevrotain is real
Glad that endangered species are surviving in the wild again. Conservation efforts must be working.
2naSalit
(86,897 posts)7. Probably as close to a jackalope as we're gonna get!
It would be nice if they were thriving rather than just surviving. I wonder what their average age length is.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)2. Looks evolutionary.
quite thought-provoking.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)3. Awwwwww!!!
Gee, I was expecting to say Eeeeek!
Marcuse
(7,554 posts)4. A Sabre toothed deer rabbit.
Duppers
(28,130 posts)5. They are Mouse deer.
"Chevrotains, also known as mouse-deer, are small ungulates that make up the family Tragulidae..."
Curiosity made me look them up.
2naSalit
(86,897 posts)6. Wow, I've heard of them but thought they were extinct.
Interesting species.