Great news!! they found a new little guy near my hometown.
It's a new species of tuco-tuco and these are the important facts about it:
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There's a lot of tuco-tuco species in South America, they tend to diverge because their populations remain isolated from each other
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this is the sixth tuco-tuco species discovered in the Córdoba province (Argentina)
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this guy is special because tuco-tucos usually burrow in the ground and create these tiny dirt mounds, but this species lives in a rockier area so it just digs under lil' rock mounds
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They named the subspecies Ctenomys heniacamiare, after the Henia Camiare people that are the rightful inhabitants of the land and were violently displaced by Spanish colonizers
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Their common name, "tuco-tuco" is because of the sound they make when they're underground
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they don't look all that different from another subspecies, they identified them through genetic analysis and some tiny bones in their tiny heads
