Chevrotain
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CHEVROTAIN, a name taken from the French to designate the various representatives of the mammalian ungulate family Tragulidae.
Chevrotain
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(shv´rtn´´), name for four species of small, ruminant mammals of Africa and SE Asia.
The Chevrotain Family Tree
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Water chevrotains are hunted by most carnivores which share the same habitat, with young animals also being taken by both nocturnal and diurnal birds of prey (Robin, 1990).
Water chevrotain (Hyemoschus aquaticus)
Chevrotains, also known as mouse deer, are the intermediates in appearance between pigs and deer. The water chevrotain has, like the other... More 5 Images 1 Video ...
Water Chevrotain (H. aquaticus)
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Indian Spotted Chevrotain (M. meminna) Â- M. kathygre ...
Water chevrotain
A deer-like animal the size of a rabbit, and intermediate in their physiology between pigs and deer. Water chevrotains live in dense African rainforest near water, and are nocturnal and solitary.
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The genus name Tragulus means 'little goat' in Greek, and the French call the six species of mouse-deer that live in Asia and another species that lives in Africa chevrotains, or 'little goats.
Artiodactyls range in size from the mouse deer (or 'chevrotains') of Southeast Asia that are barely bigger than a rabbit, to the giant hippopotamus, which weighs some three tons.
Family Tragulidae - chevrotains (mouse deer)
Family Giraffidae - giraffe, okapi
Family Cervidae - deer, including musk deer, moose, muntjacs, brockets, roe deer, pudu, caribou, elk, etc.
Family Antilocapridae - pronghorn ...
Ecologically, they range from forest dwellers, such as wild pigs and chevrotains, to dominant large herbivores on grasslands. Artiodactyls have colonized a number of biomes characterized by extreme conditions.
 See also: Deer, Antelope, Hippo, Goat, Sheep
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