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Mouse Deer
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see chevrotain.
More on Mouse Deer
Chevrotain - name for four species of small, ruminant mammals of Africa and SE Asia.
Greater Malay mouse deer
Taxonomy Tragulus napu [F. Cuvier, 1822]. Citation: In E. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, pt. 2, 4(37):4 pp. "Chevrotain napu". Type locality: Indonesia, S Sumatra.
Greater Malay Mouse Deer
Tragulus napu
Description
The greater Malay mouse deer, or chevrotain, has the face of an agouti, the legs of a tiny deer, and weighs less than a fat house cat.
Description – Balabac mouse deer
Information on the Balabac mouse deer is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly.
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Mouse deer earn their common name because they are small; the largest individuals weigh around 4.5 kg. Their coats are some shade of brown above and white below. White spots and stripes can be seen on the body. Their muzzles are hairless.
Tragulina Includes two genera: Hyemoschus, the African chevrotain, and Tragulus, the Asian "mouse deer." These are the smallest of all artiodactyls; the smallest species, the lesser Malay mouse deer, is only 40 cm long " no bigger than a rabbit.
The even-toed ungulates form the mammal order Artiodactyla (artios even + daktulos toe), the group that contains the pigs, peccaries, hippopotami, camels, chevrotains (mouse deer), deer, giraffes, pronghorn, antelopes, sheep, 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 ...
Teeth of Terror: Musk and mouse deer do not grow antlers. Instead, large upper canine teeth are used in battle.
 See also: Deer, Mouse, Chevrotain, Antelope, Hippo
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