Larger Malay Chevrotain (Tragulus napu)

by Univ. of Michigan staff

Larger Malay Mouse Deer  live close to water and prefer to be in the undergrowth of dense forests, in Thailand, Indochina, Sri Lanka, the Malayan Penninsula, and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.

This mouse deer, first described by F. Cuvier in 1822, is one of the smallest living hoofed mammals, along with the other three species in this genus. Some measurements of the Mouse Deer is that their body length is 70-75 cm, their shoulder height is 30-35 cm and their tail length is 8-10 cm.

The larger Malay Mouse Deer has a diet of fallen fruit and berries, aquatic plants, leaves, buds, shrubs and grasses…

(via: Encyclopedia of Live)

photo: Clyde Nishimura, Smithsonian’s National Zoo