This deer-mouse creature was lost to science for 30 years. Now it's back, and it will haunt your dreams
Photo: aee_werawan/Getty Images/iStockphoto An improbable deer-mouse creature that will long grace my nightmares with its freaky presence was lost to science for 30 years until now and frankly some mysteries are better left undisturbed.
A team of researchers with the Global Wildlife Conservation captured footage of the animal, long thought to have been lost to science if not extinct, on motion-activated camera “traps” they set up in its former habitat, a coastal forest of southern Vietnam.
I realize plenty of readers won’t agree with this sentiment because I already know that several of my coworkers find the deer-mouse to be cute and not a genre-defying ungulate designed by nature specifically to torture my mind. That’s fair, too. An Nguyen, a scientist and the team’s leader, told the Guardian on Monday, “We had no idea what to expect, so I was surprised and overjoyed when we checked the camera traps and saw photographs of a chevrotain with silver flanks.” He continued, “Discovering that it is, indeed, still out there is the first step in ensuring we don’t lose it again, and we’re moving quickly now to figure out how best to protect it.
The chevrotain is thought to be preyed upon by leopards, pythons, and wild dogs, but according to the Guardian, it was human hunters who nearly wiped out the species for good and could continue to threaten the population. It’s lovely that the curséd deer mouse is thriving. I want that for her, just as I want so badly to forget what I have seen.
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