Imagine an animal that seems to be assembled from various other creatures: it has large eyes, the round body of a rabbit, a ...

The silver-backed chevrotain, also known as the Vietnamese mouse-deer, is about the size of a large rabbit, with a silver sheen on its rump. The creatures have tusk-like incisors, visible in the ...

The range is transcontinental, and from Alaska to southern Mexico, except for the southeastern U.S. In the Adirondacks the deer mouse is wide spread, occurring in all terrestrial habitats at all ...

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That was the case with the Vietnam mouse-deer, also known as the silver-backed chevrotain, a creature that was once considered the smallest living hoofed animal species, but had not been seen for ...

The story of Sang Kancil is integral to the Malaysian experience. Many Malaysians grew up hearing tales of the mouse deer using its cleverness to solve its problems. Despite its name, the mouse ...

Despite having few offspring per litter and their diminutive size, Mouse deer still evade predation due to their ‘elusive behaviour’ Mouse deer are not rodents but small hoofed animals and ...

HYDERABAD: Mouse deer or Indian chevrotain plays a major role in the forest ecosystem as seed disperser and forms important prey for many small and large carnivores. Though it is commonly found in ...

Nocturnal, it makes 20 to 30 foraging trips each night, leaving 40 to 100 droppings scattered around in a single day. The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), sometimes called the field mouse, is a ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

In reality, they likely belong to the western deer mouse. As the animal hops across the snow, its larger hind paws land in front of the two smaller front paws. Following at the rear is a track ...