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Zookeepers at Whipsnade Zoo have been fawning over a tiny baby “vampire” deer they are hand-raising before its move to London Zoo next month. Four of the miniature creatures have been born at ...
The water deer (Hydropotes inermis) is a small deer species native to Korea and China. Its prominent tusks , similar to those of musk deer , have led to both subspecies being colloquially named vampire deer in English-speaking areas to which they have been imported.
The term ‘vampire deer’ or ‘fanged deer’ actually doesn’t apply to one set species. It’s a slang term used to describe four different types of deer. These deer may look exactly like ...
The sabre-tooth water deer of China is often called the vampire deer due to the exceptionally long canine teeth in the males. In many species the canine teeth in the upper or lower jaw, or in both jaws, are much larger in males than in females, where they are sometimes hidden or completely absent.
Chevrotains, or mouse-deer, are diminutive, even-toed ungulates that make up the family Tragulidae, and are the only living members of the infraorder Tragulina. The 10 extant species are placed in three genera, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but several species also are known only from fossils . [ 3 ]
Warsaw Zoo is seeking suggestions to name a female baby southern pudu, the second smallest deer species in the world, after its birth two months ago. Originating from forests in Chile and ...
Armadillos are small mammals with a bony armored shell. Two of twenty-one extant species are still present in Panama; the remainder are only found in South America, where they originated. Their much larger relatives, the pampatheres and glyptodonts , once lived in North and South America but went extinct following the appearance of humans.
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