In search of a lost species: the Santa Marta Toro

Mongabay
By Shreya DasguptaAug 17, 2016, 3:40 am237 pts
In May 2011, two volunteer researchers had an unexpected visitor at the El Dorado Nature Reserve Ecotourism lodge in northwestern Colombia. A rare, tiny rodent called the Santa Marta Toro or the Santa Marta Tree Rat (Santamartyamys rufodorsalis) appeared at the porch of the lodge, posed for photographs for…

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