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Published online 10 December 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.364
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Spotlight on Mongolian animals
Expedition launches projects and returns rare video footage.
A research expedition to the Mongolian Gobi Desert has returned new insight into odd, endangered and very cute animals — the long-eared jerboa (Euchoreutes naso) and the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus).
Both can be found on the Zoological Society of London’s list of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) mammals — a list that showcases threatened creatures on relatively isolated branches of the evolutionary tree.
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