Tiny Deer-Like Animal Seen for First Time in 30 Years in Vietnam

Tiny Deer-Like Animal Seen for First Time in 30 Years in Vietnam
A camera trap photo of a silver-backed chevrotain, a deer-like creature that has not been seen in 30 years, has been discovered living in the wild in Vietnam. Southern Institute of Ecology/Global Wildlife Conservation/Leibniz Institute/NCNP
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A tiny deer-like creature about the size of a rabbit has been photographed in the wild for the first time in three decades in southern Vietnam, delighting conservationists who feared the species was extinct.

The silver-backed chevrotain, also called the Vietnamese mouse deer, was last recorded more than 25 years ago when a team of Vietnamese and Russian researchers obtained a dead chevrotain from a hunter.