Schomburgk’s Deer: Thailand’s Forgotten Antlers
Once abundant in Thailand’s swampy plains, Schomburgk’s Deer sported magnificent basket-shaped antlers that made them targets for trophy hunters. Local farmers converted their wetland homes to rice fields. The last captive individual died in 1938. Some reports of antlers from the 1990s sparked brief hope, but extensive surveys found no living deer. Their elegant silhouette exists now only in museum specimens and old photographs.