Silver-Backed Chevrotain, With Fangs And Hooves, Photographed In Wild For First Time

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From https://www.npr.org/2019/11/11/778312670/silver-backed-chevrotain-with-fangs-and-hooves-photographed-in-wild-for-first-ti

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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[IronLionZion]

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]

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]

2. Looks evolutionary.

quite thought-provoking.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. Awwwwww!!!

Gee, I was expecting to say “Eeeeek”!

[Marcuse]

4. A Sabre toothed deer rabbit.

[Duppers]

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]

6. Wow, I've heard of them but thought they were extinct.

Interesting species.