I have written previously (here) about the Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis), the small buffalo found only on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines and of how I had seen one in Manila Zoo in 1967. When I wrote that article I had found that an attempt to create a captive-breeding group of this critically endangered species had failed. Yesterday I read in the latest edition of Keeper Contact (165, November 2020) that the last animal in that group had died:
Here is my old photograph taken in January 1967:
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