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Chinese water deer
Taxonomy Hydropotes inermis [Swinhoe, 1870]. Citation: Athenaeum, 2208:264. Type locality: China, Kiangsu, Chingkiang, Yangtze River, Deer Isl.
Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis)
Greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus)
Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus)
Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo) ...
Some species, such as water deer of Southeast Asia, lead relatively solitary lives and only seek company during mating season. Other species, such as wildebeast, cape buffalo and American bison, form large heards.
However, like the musk deer and Chinese water deer, the upper canine teeth tusks well developed and sabre-like in males, protruding out of the mouth on either side of the lower jaw (Happold, 1973; Kingdon, 1997).
(animals), Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates), Suborder Ruminantia (ruminants), Family Cervidae (deer, elk, moose, etc.), Subfamilies: Cervinae (elk, fallow deer, etc.), Hydropotinae (Chinese Water Deer), ...
The male deer horns shed and regrow every year, a little like the skin on a snake. The only species of deer with exception to this annual horn shedding is the Chinese water deer.
groups: the old world group includes the subfamilies Muntiacinae and Cervinae; the new world deer the subfamilies Hydropotinae and Capreolinae. Note that the terms indicate the origin of the groups, not their modern distribution: the Water Deer, ...
Sika Deer C. nippon - Introduced
Fallow Deer Dama dama
Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus
Reindeer Rangifer tarandus
Reeves's Muntjac Muntiacus reevesi - Introduced
Water Deer Hydropotes inermis - Introduced ...
 See also: Deer, Roe Deer, Musk, Musk Deer, Moose
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