The face of extinction
start this month accounting for a piece of intriguing news, which flashed across my computer screen moments after I made the finishing touches to this month’s back page article. The fanged mouse-deer () is probably not a species you have come across before, unless you are particularly knowledgeable about the mammals of the lowland forests of Vietnam. Even if you are, they were thought to be extinct until recently, with the last scientific recording back in 1990. Also known as the silver-backed chevrotain (a French word roughly translating as
