{"id":18701,"date":"2024-12-20T04:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18701"},"modified":"2024-12-20T05:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:27:02","slug":"a-mouse-that-swims-and-dozens-more-species-are-discovered-in-a-peruvian-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18701","title":{"rendered":"A Mouse That Swims and Dozens More Species Are Discovered in a Peruvian Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 38-day expedition in the remote Alto Mayo region, where development threatens wild habitats, turned up one previously unknown animal after another.<\/p>\n

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In the summer of 2022, researchers trudged into the jungles of the Alto Mayo region of Peru in search of undiscovered creatures. This remote yet populous region had experienced significant deforestation, so the team didn\u2019t expect to find much.<\/p>\n

But on Day 1, the researchers discovered a new species of climbing salamander. \u201cI was so excited,\u201d said the leader of the expedition, Trond Larsen, who is senior director for biodiversity and ecosystem science at Conservation International, a nonprofit.<\/p>\n

And the discoveries didn\u2019t stop there. A new species of butterfly was discovered shortly after, followed by a new species of squirrel. Then came their most surprising find of all: a mouse that swims with webbed feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmphibious rodents are almost mythical to mammal experts,\u201d Dr. Larsen said. \u201cThey\u2019re one of the more rare groups of mammals in the world. I\u2019ve been on so many expeditions where we\u2019ve searched relentlessly for them and come up with nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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During their 38-day expedition, Dr. Larsen and his team discovered 27 new species in Alto Mayo, including four mammals, eight fish, three amphibians and 10 butterflies. The team also found dozens of rare and endangered species, some not known to occur anywhere else on Earth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A new species of tropical climbing salamander, which spends most of its time in low vegetation and shrubs. This species was abundant but only within a small patch of unique white sand forest in the Alto Mayo.<\/span>Trond Larsen\/Conservation International<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A 38-day expedition in the remote Alto Mayo region, where development threatens wild habitats, turned up one previously unknown animal after another.In the summer of 2022, researchers trudged into the jungles of the Alto Mayo region of Peru in search of undiscovered creatures. This remote yet populous region had experienced significant deforestation, so the team didn\u2019t expect to find much.But on Day 1, the researchers discovered a new species of climbing salamander. \u201cI was so excited,\u201d said the leader of the expedition, Trond Larsen, who is senior director for biodiversity and ecosystem science at Conservation International, a nonprofit.And the discoveries didn\u2019t stop there. A new species of butterfly was discovered shortly after, followed by a new species of squirrel. Then came their most surprising find of all: a mouse that swims with webbed feet.\u201cAmphibious rodents are almost mythical to mammal experts,\u201d Dr. Larsen said. \u201cThey\u2019re one of the more rare groups of mammals in the world. I\u2019ve been on so many expeditions where we\u2019ve searched relentlessly for them and come up with nothing.\u201dDuring their 38-day expedition, Dr. Larsen and his team discovered 27 new species in Alto Mayo, including four mammals, eight fish, three amphibians and 10 butterflies. The team also found dozens of rare and endangered species, some not known to occur anywhere else on Earth.A new species of tropical climbing salamander, which spends most of its time in low vegetation and shrubs. This species was abundant but only within a small patch of unique white sand forest in the Alto Mayo.Trond Larsen\/Conservation InternationalWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18703,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18704,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701\/revisions\/18704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}