Search launched for 25 missing species

JurassicMax said:
Sadly I have only seen dead or stuffed moles...
What would actually be a ''good'' way of finding/surveying fossorial animals? I recon you could dig in a bucket which devides a tunnel, isn't the most ethical way I persume (especially if it starts raining..)
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On the subject of rain and finding fossorial mammals, this is exactly how the pink fairy armadillo is found.

During the rainy season it rains so much that they end up leaving their burrow networks underground as these absorb water and become flooded.

This is virtually the only time that people really catch a glimpse of this species.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
On the subject of rain and finding fossorial mammals, this is exactly how the pink fairy armadillo is found.

During the rainy season it rains so much that they end up leaving their burrow networks underground as these absorb water and become flooded.

This is virtually the only time that people really catch a glimpse of this species.
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Out of interest, have you seen a pink fairy armadillo?
 
CheeseChameleon2007 said:
Out of interest, have you seen a pink fairy armadillo?
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No, never, as I have never been to that area of South America (Central Argentina).

Although I would love to as it is a species that I find fascinating (very unlikely that this will happen though). The closest I think I will ever come to this species is the times where I have seen taxidermy specimens in museums.

But I have spoken in passing to the researcher / IUCN chair Mariella Superina who is probably the person who has seen this species the most and investigated it in its natural habitat.
 
Dassie rat said:
Nick Baker did a programme about the pink fairy armadillo in 2007 (Nick Baker's Weird Creatures). I can't gain access to it at the moment.
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Mariella was in that programe :) she was the PhD researcher who was helping Nick unsuccessfully to try and find the "pichiciego".

A lot happened since, she has long since finished her doctorate and she is now the chair of the IUCN ASASG (Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group).

One thing that hasnt appeared to change though is that the pink fairy armadillo is still one of the hardest animals to see in the wild.
 
There is a paper Mariella Superina wrote about the pink fairy armadillo in captivity, might be of interest.

"Husbandry of a Pink Fairy Armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus): Case Study of a Cryptic and Little Known Species in Captivity"

Just access it via sci-hub and you can download it.
 
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