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The water deer have developed long canine teeth which protrude from the upper jaw like the canines of musk deer. The canines are fairly large in the bucks, ranging in length from 5.5 cm (2.2 in) on average to as long as 8 cm (3.1 in). Does, in comparison, have tiny canines that are an average of 0.5 cm (0.2 in) in length. [32]
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Male fallow deer fighting Two sambar deer fighting, Silvassa, India. Antlers are unique to cervids. The ancestors of deer had tusks (long upper canine teeth). In most species, antlers appear to replace tusks. However, one modern species (the water deer) has tusks and no antlers and the muntjacs have small antlers and tusks.
A video shows a Michigan family rescuing a deer that fell in icy water. The rescue occurred last Friday in Cedarville Bay, located in the state's Upper Peninsula, according to reports.
Muntjacs (/ m ʌ n t dʒ æ k / MUNT-jak), [1] also known as the barking deer [2] or rib-faced deer, [2] are small deer of the genus Muntiacus native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. Muntjacs are thought to have begun appearing 15–35 million years ago, with remains found in Miocene deposits in France, Germany [ 3 ] and Poland. [ 4 ]
Today’s U.S. deer population stands at an estimated 35-36 million, marking a dramatic recovery from their near-extinction due to historical overhunting. Their remarkable rebound has been so ...
Horrifying video shows a deer running down a smoke-filled street in the Altadena neighborhood on January 8. The animal looked scared as it searched for someplace to hide. But sadly there was ...
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 ]