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  2. Chevrotain - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. Java mouse-deer - Wikipedia

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    Mouse-deer are particularly vulnerable to being hunted by humans at night because of their tendency to freeze when illuminated by having a spotlight shone on them. [1] Because of the small size of the Java mouse-deer, dogs are also a common predator for them, as well as crocodiles, big cats, birds of prey, and snakes. [15]

  4. Western deer mouse - Wikipedia

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    P. sonoriensis is a short-tailed deermouse with a distinctive white underside and white feet. Their coat color ranges from fulvous to brownish. They can be mistaken for the eastern deer mouse, which is indistinguishable except by range, or for the white-footed mouse, which has a tail with indistinct bicoloring.

  5. Outdoors: There are plenty of deer to see while on safari in ...

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    The ever-vigilant deer warn the langurs of approaching predators, while the langurs, during their sloppy feeding, drop hard-to-get canopy fruits and nutritious leaves down to the ground for the ...

  6. Rare deer-like species photographed for first time in wild - AOL

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    A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam, a conservation group said Tuesday. Images of the silver-backed chevrotain ...

  7. Tragulus - Wikipedia

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    Tragulus is a genus of even-toed ungulates in the family Tragulidae that are known as mouse-deer. [1] In Ancient Greek τράγος ( tragos ) means a male goat , [ 2 ] while the Latin diminutive –ulus means 'tiny'.

  8. Eastern deer mouse - Wikipedia

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    Peromyscus maniculatus is a rodent native to eastern North America.It is most commonly called the eastern deer mouse; when formerly grouped with the western deer mouse (P. sonoriensis), it was referred to as the North American deermouse [2] and is fairly widespread across most of North America east of the Mississippi River, with the major exception being the lowland southeastern United States.

  9. Greater mouse-deer - Wikipedia

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    Greater mouse-deer at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, DC. The greater mouse-deer is an even-toed ungulate. Although very small for an ungulate, the greater mouse-deer is one of the largest members of its genus. It is rivalled in size by Williamson's mouse-deer. It weighs 5 to 8 kg (11 to 18 lb).