Add a base on the huge mammal species available in Vietnam

(Photo: LD) In the attic of a researcher in Hanoi, I and Dr. Nguyen Van Viet - Director of the Center for Southeast Asian History are extremely surprised to see a pair of animal horns in the period. latitude (image).

Nearly 60 years old, Dr. Viet has spent many years studying animals from prehistoric times until now, in many countries, but he has never seen such a big and long horn. Mr. Viet uses wire to hang in two curved horn branches, overall, horn is 2.18m long (!), And measured by stretching the rope from two sucking points of two horn branches, the length is about more than 1.8m.

The remaining hairs on the head (skull) of the animal (the joint between the two horn branches) is very big and hard. Perhaps, the " boss " (animal) of that horn pair must be bigger than an adult elephant (!?). The owner of this large animal horn said: They have bought in western Thanh Hoa. The seller said: They have hunted this " beast ".

Mr. Pham Trong Anh - a leading expert of the Animal Department, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) - after seeing the horns mentioned above directly to Labor reporter: I have not been able to consider carefully, I should not rush to conclude. But, with the naked eye, it can be predicted that this is a large buffalo.

Huge horns pair.(Photo: Labor)

Vietnam has wild buffalo (but the number is still very small), they are distributed along the majestic Truong Son mountain range, including the western area of ​​Thanh Hoa (adjacent to Laos) that information of collectors mentioned. However, during the 40 years of research (which used to be a " war " to assess the largest cases in Vietnam) about wildlife and wildlife hunting, he never met a horn of an animal. may be so big. " Much of the length of the animal horns I see is less than 1m " - he said - while the horns are 2.18m long.

Dr. Nguyen Van Viet is planning to go directly to the " collector " back to the area where they bought a pair of horns to learn information from the hunter. Mr. Pham Trong Anh also enthusiastically promised to participate. They hope the big horns mentioned above will be the red thread that will bring scientists and conservationists to a huge herd of animals living in relatively primitive forests of western Thanh Hoa.

According to experts, the inspection of the breed, the type of animal bones (horn) mentioned above is not difficult, even the cost of DNA inspection is very . small. Perhaps this will not be the clue of many other interesting and rewarding stories?

Do Doan Hoang