The silver-backed chevrotain, or Vietnam mouse-deer (Tragulus versicolor), has been discovered living in the wild for the first time in 30 years, according to a paper published in Nature Ecology & ...

also called the Vietnamese mouse-deer, was last recorded in the 1990s. The animal, a deer-like species that is the size of a rabbit, has been hanging on in a region of southern Vietnam ravaged by ...

And a team of scientists from Vietnam and Germany have now been able ... backed chevrotain (Tragulus versicolor) – a type of mouse deer – was rediscovered by scientists there.

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...