#pseudoryx

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Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) – Not a Typically a Cow 🐄

The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), also called spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or infrequently, Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine native to the Annamite Range in Vietnam and Laos. It was described in 1993 following a discovery of remains in Vũ Quang National Park by a joint survey of the Vietnamese Ministry of Forestry and the World Wide Fund for Nature.

It is the only species in the genus Pseudoryx. The saola is the member of the wild cattle, but it literally not a cattle at all, but same appearance as an antelope. A recent sequencing study of ribosomal mitochondrial DNA of a large taxon sample divides the bovid family into two major subfamilial clades. The first clade is the subfamily Bovinae consisting of three tribes: Bovini (cattle and buffaloes, including the saola), Tragelaphini (Strepsicerotini) (African spiral-horned bovids) and Boselaphini (the nilgai and four-horned antelope).

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Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)

Photo by David Harvey

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Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)

Photo by William Robichaud

[animalids]

Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)

Photo by William Robichaud

[muxyk]

The Iberian lynx is an endangered species of felid in the world. The reason of their nearly extinction is like the leopard cat in Taiwan. Their habitat is shrinking due to human over develop the highway which also cause many car incidents. And some are poisoned by pesticide.

世界上最受威脅面臨絕種的大型貓科－伊比利亞猞猁，如同台灣的野生山貓因人類過度開發公路，屢傳遭車撞或是被農藥毒死的事件。

Fewer than 250 Saolas remaining in the world lose their habitat owing to highway development.

同樣因公路建設而失去家園的中南羚羊全世界僅剩不到250頭。

Polar bears are an endangered species that we all know. However, we haven’t done anything positive to preserve them.

北極熊是大家都知道即將瀕臨絕種的動物,可是人類卻無所作為可以拯救他們

We all know ice burgs are melting, but we don’t notice even penguins outside of the Antarctic are threatened by climate change. 

長期以來人們注意到了冰山在溶解，但南極冷雨卻是前所未有的新現象，企鵝也正以驚人的速度在消失中。

Black rhinoceros are threatening for its horns. Hawksbill sea turtles and Formosan sika deers lose their lives because of human desire of their skin and appearance.

黑犀牛更因牛角被中醫神化；玳瑁龜、台灣梅花鹿因美麗的外表；全都成為人類欲望下的犧牲品。

Formosan clouded leopards are currently considered extinct. And, all species in the world are all related. An extinct species will have positive effect to other species. Every hour in the world, 3 species is going to extinct which means there are 26000 species are extinct in a year.

而台灣雲豹早已絕跡；生態是環環相扣的，每一種物種的消失牽連著其牠物種的生存，現在地球每小時就有3種生物滅絕，也就是說一年有超過2萬6千種的生物消失。

If we can’t save those nearly extinct species, the ecosystem would be damaged. Earth is every species’ homeland. Several species on earth are in slow process of extinction. Maybe the next extinct species is ourselves, the human.

如果無法拯救這些瀕臨絕種的動物，生態系也隨之受到破壞，地球是我們共同的家園，物種不斷的消失或許下一個要面臨滅絕的就是人類。

When we dream to move to the next earth, can we take a look at our crying earth.

人類夢想著移民到下一個地球的同時，是否能回頭看看正在流淚的地球之母。

Can the black hole in human mind go through time and space to save lives or its just a black hole.

人心的黑洞是否能穿越時空解救物種生命，亦或是個實實在在遙不可及的大黑洞!?