Now in Laos one of the rarest and most mysterious animals has been sighted: a Saola or Vietnamese Vu Quang ox . It is so mysterious that it is often associated with the legendary unicorns - although it has two horns on the forehead. Last such an animal was photographed ten years ago. As the international nature conservation union (IUCN) informed on Thursday, already arrested at the end of August villager in the province of Bolikhamsai in central Laos the animal and brought it in her village. However, there it passed away few days later. Arrived researchers could still do photos of the living animal. The dead little man was brought in the provincial centre Pakxan where biologists want to examine it. „ This can be an essential step forwards what concerns the understanding of this unusual and mysterious kind “, said Pierre Comizzoli of the IUCN. „ One still knows a little about these animals “, explained Stefan Ziegler of the WWF. They seem in the mountains of Laos and Vietnam, are as big rain forest inhabitant and possibly as Central European roe deer. Their horns are long and directed nearly just to the back. In addition, Vietnamese forest cattle count as from the extinction threatened. Researchers estimate that there are only few hundred copies. The kind was discovered only in 1992. „ At that time this was a sensation “, says Ziegler. In the end, the discovery of a new big mammalian kind counted at the end of the 20-th century as impossible. Indeed, the locals the animal was not known for a long time, European scientist up to this time, however, yet. No biologist should have seen a Vietnamese forest bovine animal in the free nature. Indeed, after his discovery several copies have been arrested, however, they everything passed away after the shortest time in captivity. The Vietnamese forest bovine animal is also known under the name Saola or Pseudoryx nghetinhensis. (DPA / abendblatt.de
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