Doctor Discovers Unusual Animal in the Mountains, Research Proves It a New Species
Twenty years ago, a common medical staff member accompanied a medical team to help patients everywhere. By chance, they photographed a cute animal behind a patient's house. It looked like a rat but also resembled a rabbit, jumping back and forth in the cracks. It was very clever.
They stayed in the patient's house for a few days, hoping to take this cute animal back for research. After several days of trapping, the animal obediently returned with them. However, they searched through all the materials they had, but couldn't find any explanation for it.
Finally, after expert research, it was proved to be a new species and officially named the Ili mouse-hare. It is a small mammal, about 20 centimeters long, with large ears, and can only live in the high-altitude ecological environment of Xinjiang.
The Ili mouse-hare lives on high mountains, and it cannot adapt to low-altitude environments. If people continue to hunt and kill it, or keep it as a pet, it will only speed up the extinction of this species.
Moreover, global warming, an ecological issue, is also an important reason for the decline of the Ili mouse-hare population. In addition to protecting the Ili mouse-hare, people must also protect the ecological system of this area, so that this unique animal of China can continue to live and reproduce here.
Source: Network
