New Vietnamese ferret-badger discovery

November 2011: Wildlife Extra reports the discovery of a new ferret-badger species in Cuc Phuong National Park in northern Vietnam.

It is called Melogale cucphuongensis.

A paper on the discovery was published in the journal Der Zoologische Garten.

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