‘Mouse deer’ rediscovered in Vietnam after no sightings for almost 30yrs

A small, deer-like animal thought to have been extinct has been spotted for the first time in three decades in the northwestern jungle of #Vietnam, providing hope that reports of the animal’s demise may have been overstated. There had been no confirmed sightings of the silver-backed chevrotain or ‘#mousedeer’ since 1990. But Vietnamese biologist An Nguyen along with colleagues Barney Long and Andrew Tilker refused to give up on the ungulate from the species, Tragulus versicolor. The mouse deer boast two-to