Peru’s Río Abiseo park yields new marsupial, hinting at more undiscovered species
via news.mongabay.com
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In 2018, Brazilian biologist Silvia Pavan traveled to Río Abiseo National Park, in Peru’s San Martín region, following the trail of a squirrel species first described from there in the 1990s. At the time, Pavan was collecting genetic samples to study the evolution of South American squirrels. She decided to organize an expedition to Río […]