Chevrotains and mouse deer

Chevrotains and mouse deer

Order : Artiodactyla
Family : Tragulidae

 

Animals in the family Tragulidae

Indian spotted chevrotain
Lesser mouse-deer
Greater mouse-deer
Facts about the family Tragulidae, the chevrotains and mouse deer

Chevrotains are the smallest of hoofed mammals, Asian species weighing as little as one-and-a-half pounds.

· Chevrotains are sometimes called “mouse deer”, but they are not really deer.

Both the lesser (below, right) and greater species of mouse deer are found in Tabin.

Ecology and Behavior The shy lesser Malay mouse deer is primarily nocturnal, and although they

Geographic Range Larger Malay Mouse Deer are located in Thiland, Indochina, Sir Lanka, Malayan Penninsula as well as some smaller islands such as Sumatra and Borneo.

Knowledge concerning the status of the Asian mouse deer (Tragulidae) is far from satisfactory, and merits a thorough investigation.

Mouse Deer are commonly encountered along the roadsides at night with the use of flashlights.

Some measurements of the Mouse Deer is that their body length is 70-75 cm, their shoulder height is 30-35 cm and their tail length is 8-10 cm.

The Balabac Chevrotain or mouse deer is active at night.

The chevrotain, or mouse deer, is a small ruminant mammal in the mammalian order Artiodactyla of the family Tragulidae.

The chevrotains are inhabitants of the Old World tropical forests and have gone virtually unchanged for 30 million years.

The reproductive biology of chevrotains is limited.

TRAGULIDAE Tragulidae is the mouse deer family of animals of the order Artiodactyla.

Mouse Deer is the favorite trickster of Indonesia and Malaysia, two countries of Southeast Asia. (Full text)

Mouse deer are shy and their fawns tend to be "hiders". (Full text)

The pelage of mouse deer is brown with an orange tint. (Full text)

Chevrotains are small, secretive creatures, now found only in the tropical forests of Africa, India, and South-east Asia. (Wiki)

Primary and secondary forests and scrub (Hoogstraal, 1951) Description/Behavior: The Balabac Chevrotain or Mouse Deer is active at night. (Full text)

Dusky leaf monkeys, white handed gibbons and lesser mouse deer are commonly seen. (Full text)

PREVIEW: Mouse Deer is small, and many animals want to eat him—but first they have to catch him! (Full text)

Panthers, tigers, leopards, sloth bears, porcupines, monitor lizards, flying squirrels, pythons, mongooses, gaur bison, antelopes, sambar and the mouse deer are residents of this national park. (Full text)

Although they are also called mouse deer, chevrotains are not closely related to true deer, and are classified in a family of their own. (Full text)

Sambar, Muntjak and Mouse deer are widespread, but Muntjak and Mouse deer are considered too small and fragile for farming. (Full text)

Rumination occurs, but mouse deer are the most primitive of all ruminants. (Full text)

Ecology and Behavior Larger Malay mouse deer are nocturnal, and hence rarely seen. (Full text)

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