The world´s rarest species of monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, is Attenborough´s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenborough). Named after veteran TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough (UK), it is currently known from just a single specimen, found dead on a mountain peak in Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea) in 1961. Local hunters claim to have seen other, living specimens, but none has been recorded so far.