The Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) gets all of the love and attention when it comes to maybe-extinct-maybe-not discussions, but Sumatra has a strange maybe-mythical-maybe-not creature that will make you forget your Sumatran Mandheling Coffee for a moment (something hard to do) – the Sumatran serow, a goat-antelope that hasn’t been photographed in years and allegedly sleeps in trees hanging by its horns. Hey … the tree-climbing goats of Morocco are real – why not the tree-hanging goat-antelopes of Mumatra?
“It’s like it’s mythical. People just hear about it, but they never get footage of it.”
Pungky Nanda Pratama, a founder of the Sumatran Camera Trap Project, told Mongabay (a nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform) about his so-far unsuccessful quest to photograph a Sumatran serow (