The world’s rarest otter, the hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana), has been rediscovered in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo, having been lost for over a century. This rare otter was last recorded in Borneo in 1997, when an individual was found killed by a car, but had not been seen in Sabah since the late 19th Century, until recent surveys conducted by conservationists using automated camera traps captured the elusive species in the Dermakot Forest Reserve.With no one even sure if the hairy-nosed otter still survived in Sabah, initially the researchers did not realise they had recorded the species, mistaking it for the more common smooth-coated otter (Lutra perspicillata) or the Asian short-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea). However
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