Saola

The Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), also called spindle horn, Asian unicorn, or infrequently, Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine native to the Annamite Range in Vietnam and Laos. It was described in 1993 following the discovery of remains in Vũ Quang National Park by a joint survey of the Vietnamese Ministry of Forestry and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Since then, saolas have been maintained in captivity several times, however only for brief periods because they passed away within a few weeks or months. Do Tuoc, a forest ecologist, and his colleagues initially mentioned the species in 1992. In 1993, the first image of a living saola was captured in captivity. The most recent was captured in 2013 by a camera that was activated by movement in a jungle in central Vietnam.

Saolas are enormous mammals that weigh 80 to 100 kg, measure around 150 cm long, and have a typical lifespan of 8 to 10 or 11 years. This mammal has two piercing horns on its head, an asymmetrical coat of skin covered in brown hair all over its body, a short tail with white markings, and thick, hazy brown hair on its abdomen and forelimbs. It is a 37 mph running herbivore that eats a variety of plants and bushes.