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crownedrose: Two of the world’s rarest mammals photographed…
Two of the world’s rarest mammals photographed for the very first time
This nighttime photo represents some of the world’s first ever visual evidence of the spotted deer species found on the island of Negros in the Philippines. Despite its size, the island’s unimaginably dense forests have kept it invisible until now.
Admittedly, the spotted deer was hardly undocumented, as there are a few examples of the species in captivity. But nobody had ever photographed one in the wild before a recent expedition deep into the island’s brutal jungle. The researchers were also able to get the first wild photographs of the warty pig, another larger mammal species native to the dense forests that had until now evaded detection.
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