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Muntiacus nigricans. The Philippine mouse-deer (Tragulus nigricans), also known as the Balabac chevrotain or pilandok (in Filipino), is a small, nocturnal ruminant, which is endemic to Balabac and nearby smaller islands (Bugsuk and Ramos) southwest of Palawan in the Philippines. The genus Tragulus means 'little goat' and the Philippine mouse ...
Synonyms. Cervus unicolor. The sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, South China and Southeast Asia that is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2008. Populations have declined substantially due to severe hunting, local insurgency, and industrial exploitation of habitat.
The chital or cheetal (Axis axis; / tʃiːtəl /), also known as the spotted deer, chital deer and axis deer, is a deer species native to the Indian subcontinent. It was first described and given a binomial name by German naturalist Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben in 1777. A moderate-sized deer, male chital reach 90 cm (35 in) and females 70 ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Philippines. Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates ... Visayan spotted deer: Rusa alfredi Sclater, 1870 ...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of the Philippine national government and the Mulhouse Zoo of France set up the Mari-it Wildlife and Conservation Park in 1993, initially as part of conversation efforts for the Visayan spotted deer. The facility expanded its scope to also include other endemic Visayan species. [3]
Taxonomy. [] The sika deer is a member of the genus Cervus, a group of deer also known as the "true" deer, within the larger deer family, Cervidae. Formerly, sika were grouped together in this genus with nine other diverse species; these animals have since been found to be genetically different, and reclassified elsewhere under different genera ...
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 ] The extant species are found in forests in South and Southeast ...
One of the challenges facing the deer population since 2012 in Pennsylvania is CWD. ... Fleegle urges the public to report sightings of deer that don’t appear to be healthy to the agency by ...