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The diverse flora includes 8,000 species of flowering plants, 1,000 kinds of ferns, and 800 species of orchids. Seventy to eighty percent of non-flying mammals in the Philippines are found nowhere else in the world. [1] Common mammals include the wild hog, deer, wild carabao, monkey, civet cat, and various rodents.
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The Philippine deer (Rusa marianna), also known as the Philippine sambar or Philippine brown deer, is a vulnerable deer species endemic to the Philippines. [1] It was first described from introduced populations in the Mariana Islands , hence the specific name.
Scientific name Common name Distribution Rusa alfredi: Visayan spotted deer, Philippine spotted deer: The Philippines. Rusa marianna: Philippine brown deer or Philippine sambar: Negros-Panay, Babuyan/Batanes, Palawan & the Sulu Faunal Regions, Philippines. Rusa timorensis: Javan rusa, Timor rusa, or Sunda sambar
A highly endangered species of deer has been pictured for the first time after it was born at Chester Zoo, Cheshire, in December 2021. The Philippine spotted deer has been named Lyra after a ...
The Visayan deer is small and short-legged, but it is the largest endemic species of deer among the Philippine islands. Adults range from 125 to 130 cm (49 to 51 in) long from the head to the base of the tail, 70 to 80 cm (28 to 31 in) in shoulder height and 40 to 60 kg (88 to 132 lb) in weight.
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Petersianthus quadrialatus (also called toog and Philippine rosewood) is an emergent tropical rainforest tree species in the Lecythidaceae family. In the Visayas region called kapullan, in the Samar and Leyte areas - magtalisai. It is an indigenous tree species in the southeastern Philippines and one of the largest tree species in the ...