An ancient settlement was recently discovered in the Amazon, but now it’s Peru’s turn, where The researchers found a new animal that they had never identified before in their territory.
Animal discoveries often surprise experts because There is still a large amount of land and species that they have not managed to know one hundred percent, Such is the case of the discoveries that have been made in Antarctica about a new marine species or animals that are beginning to appear after they were believed to be extinct.
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In Tacna, on the southern coast of Peru, a team of scientists from the Natural History Museum of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) discovered a new mammal that left them amazed. because this type of species is not common in that part of the country.
What was the mammal they discovered?
The Natural History Museum reported that They found an olive mouse (Abrothrix olivacea)which is a rodent that is part of the tribe Abrotrichini and its distribution extends from central Peru to Tierras del Fuego and islands located in Chile and Argentina.
One of the researchers, Víctor Pacheco, mentioned that only two species of that type had been identified, Abrothrix andina y Abrothrix jelskii. This finding increases the number of rodent species found in Peru to 201 and the number of mammal species found in Peru to 588.
The territory of Peru has a great diversity of rodents, including endemic and others with a wider distribution, such as the vizcacha, the chinchilla, Darwin’s long-eared mouse, the guinea pig, the spiny rat and the pacarana.
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