00:00Earth's rarest mammals vanish silently in shrinking habitats.
00:04A Saola slips through dense jungle near the Laos-Vietnam border.
00:09Across Madagascar forests, Arctic seas, and Southeast Asian mountains,
00:13rare mammals hide in shrinking habitats where scientists struggle to photograph them even once.
00:19A vaquita surfaces in Mexico's Gulf of California,
00:22exhales beside fishing nets, and survives as one of the rarest marine mammals on Earth.
00:28A Saola walks through wet forests in Laos,
00:31avoids camera traps for years,
00:33and remains so elusive that people call it the Asian unicorn.
00:37The Amr Leopard prowls snowy forests in eastern Russia,
00:41stalks deer through frozen brush,
00:42and survives with fewer than a few hundred individuals remaining.
00:46A northern hairy-nosed wombat digs burrows in Queensland grasslands,
00:51feeds at night, and clings to survival inside heavily protected Australian reserves.
00:56The Philippine eagle-sized flying lemur glides between rainforest trees at night,
01:01stretches loose skin like a parachute,
01:04and disappears into darkness before dawn.
01:07A pangolin curls into a tight armored ball in African grasslands,
01:11but poachers still capture the animal faster than populations can recover.
01:16From isolated oceans to hidden mountain forests,
01:19these mammals survive by staying unseen in places humans continue to cut,
01:23fish, and expand into.
01:25If these habitats disappear,
01:28some of Earth's rarest mammals may vanish without most people ever seeing them.
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