Ance Treatment - I didn’t know creature was rare, says tribesman who liked it well done

I didn’t know creature was rare, says tribesman who liked it well done

Fears that one of the world’s rarest creatures had been driven to extinction have been allayed by a tribesman who told conservationists he had recently eaten one. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a little-known, primitive mammal that lays eggs, lives in Papua New Guinea. Only one specimen, found in 1961, has ever been seen by scientists.