The images confirm the species, which has been “lost” to science for 29 years, is alive and well in its native Vietnam. Of the many animals Andrew Tilker studies, there are plenty he’s never actually ...

Researchers have rediscovered an elusive deer-like animal species which had been lost to science for almost three decades. The silver-backed chevrotain (Tragulus versicolor) is a small species of ...

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The silver-backed chevrotain hadn't been photographed or studied by scientists in 30 years. Photo by: Southern Institute of Ecology/Global Wildlife Conservation/Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ...

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Using dozens of motion-activated camera traps, conservationists in Vietnam have captured photographic evidence of the silver-backed chevrotain—an impossibly adorable deer-like creature that hadn’t ...

Scientists say their goal was to rediscover a type of chevrotain that had been "lost to science" for nearly 30 years. Chevrotains are the world's... The silver-backed chevrotain — a mysterious animal ...

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 164-167 (4 pages) Thirteen sexually mature captive male lesser Malay chevrotains (Tragulus javanicus) were each anesthetized ...

Mouse deer are primitive, forest ungulates found in Asia and Africa. Both the lesser mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus) and the Philippine mouse deer (T. nigricans) are managed in European zoos, but ...

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 ...