According to Wikipedia, it's threatened by loss of its natural habitat in Asia. So many awesome, amazing, cool, and interesting creatures most of us have never even seen—and so many that will be gone before we ever get the chance. When I was a kid, I saw a photograph in National Geographic of a huge storage hangar where the Smithsonian keeps the stuffed and preserved bodies of literally thousands of extinct animals it has collected. Some of them became extinct due to natural causes; many were done in by human activity. I still remember how sad I felt looking at that photo, that I'd never ever be able to see what those animals looked like when they moved in life, or hear what kind of sounds they made, or see what their babies looked like. And those are just my selfish, non-practical reasons for caring about such things now that I am a grown-up. Yeah, I know, what a bummer—but hey, that's what I thought of looking at this tiny little rodent that I never even knew existed until now.
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