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Mouse-deer species not seen for 30 years found alive in Vietnam
short by Kanishka Pandey / on Tuesday, 12 November, 2019
A distinctly two-tone mouse-deer, or the silver-backed chevrotain, was filmed by camera traps set up in a Vietnamese forest, after nearly 30 years. The deer-like animal has been confirmed scientifically only once since 1907. Despite the name, the animals are neither mice nor deer, but the world's smallest ungulate, or hoofed animal.
read more at The Guardian