#Java mouse deer

[miscreantmermaid]

Hey, don't cry. Smallest hoofed mammal in the world, ok?

It's called the java mouse-deer, and it weighs about 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lbs) at maturity, making it roughly the size of a rabbit. Ok?

[markhors-menagerie]

Java mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus)

With pencil-sized legs and a weight of 2-4 pounds (1-2 kg), this mouse-deer is the smallest living species of hoofed mammal. It lives in the highland forests of Java, Indonesia, carving tiny tunnels through the brush to use as frequent paths. It eats leaves, fresh shoots, and very small fallen fruits and seeds. It also has the smallest known red blood cells of any mammal, many of which have an unusual shape, but the reason for this isn’t known.

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Adding: the Java Mouse-Deer, a Chevrotain and cousin to animals like giraffes and bison and sheep. But they're super tiny. Tiniest hooved animal.

Reality is so cool.

Next up in "that's a pokemon or quirked animal wtf" we have the Indian Giant Squirrel.

Previous entries in the Real Life Pokedex include the bearded vulture which dyes its white feathers with red/orange dirt/mud:

And this doesn't get into crazy natural abilities exhibited by real animals. Or the absolute insanity that is ocean life or insects.

[antiqueanimals]

Brehm's Tierleben. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Gustav Mützel. 1922 edition.

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[garak]

hi mr. mouse deer i hope you are enjoying your vegetable love from your friend the slow loris

[littleguy-scuffle]

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Is that a deer or a mouse? It's a lesser mouse-deer! This species is one of the smallest hoofed animals, second only to its cousin, the Java mouse-deer. Lesser mouse deer stand only 45 cm (18 inches) at the shoulder and weigh less than 2 kg (4.4 lb). This makes it easy prey for animals like clouded leopards, large snakes, and birds of prey.

(Image: A lesser mousedeer (Tragulus kanchil) by Kaeng Krachan National Park)

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[internetdruid]

🥚

Kind druid, may I please have your silliest Ungulate. Thank you

For you, the silliest ungulate I have to offer

Java mouse-deer!

(Tragulus javanicus)

[artastic-friend]

Borrowers are back too 😁

Was joking with Wakey the other day when we were watching some bugs flying and landing in slow motion, and then we thought it would be funny if B!March just can’t land💀💀

Eat shit bro

Dw guys they got a natural cushion with them to land on 😁

I still need to decide on if I like their design or if I wanna change it- been tempted to make them look more like a Java Mouse-Deer. But at the same time I still really like some aspects of their regular design that I would lose if I did that-

But anyway 👹👹👹

Also have a page of silly beetle DJ doodles from that one dream I had ages ago.

[worldyea]

HEY. HEY. THIS IS A CHEVROTAIN. ONE OF MY MOST SPECIALIST INTERESTS EVER. HERES A BUNCH OF INFO I KNOW ABOUT CHEVROTAINS.

They're also referred to as mouse deer, despite not being rodents or true deer. They're actually more closely related to camels, pigs, and even whales! (Being the closest living animal to Indohyus, a whale ancestor, AKA what whales looked like if they never switched to water).

Chevrotain is also an inaccurate name, chevrot, meaning kid or Fawn, which is derived from chèvre (goat). However I refer to them as chevrotains for the same of simplicity. The Telugu name is jarini pandi, literally meaning "a deer and a pig". Some other names are barka, barinka, kūramān, and my favorite sarukumāṉ (meaning "leaf-pile deer")

the first chevotain ever recorded was in 1910, but they essentially vanished for a generation. 80 years later, they were rediscovered a hunter shooting one (which was thr fifth reporting of a chevrotain Ever). Scientists then went on an expedition to find more, and in 2019 (almost 30 years later) they found some with camera traps and interviews with local villagers and forest rangers! chevrotains are VERY hard to observe and find. They're solitary, incredibly timid and flightly (fleeing at the slightest noise), live in dense vegetation, and only communicate with each other with markings and noises. The noises they make are a soft bleating noises. They're also nocturnal. The only times chevrotains really interact is to mate, a mother and its young, or to fight (except for the lesser Malay chevrotains, which mate for life). Even with dense populations of chevrotains, they rarely interact. A female chevrotain gestation period is about 6-9 months, and they can get pregnant again *hours after giving birth!* Water chevrotains have precocial babies, meaning they can stand up and qalk around an hour after being born!

Chevrotains are unfortunately very data deficient. Not only are they difficult to observe (as mentioned before), but we've only really started studying them 4 years ago. There have been attempts to breed them in captivity, but has only really worked with water chevrotains

chevrotains have thin legs, round body, and rumps. Chevrotains are constantly on their "tip toes". They also possess fangs, which are more prominent in males. Their tough rumps protect them from bites, while their fangs are for sparring/self defense!

Not only are chevrotains the smallest hooved animal, they also have real tiny blood cells! Their blood cells have been shown to have odd pits and unique shapes, however this might be attributed to the specifc chevrotains health (despite none of them having any obvious signs of disease)

Chevrotains also have folklore! Kancil Stories are fables about Sang Kancil, a physically weak Java mouse deer that outsmarts others

One story is Sang Kancil and the Farmer. Sang Kancil was stealing cumbers from a farmers crop, and started mocking a scarecrow because it didn't scare him. He bullied the scarecrow by kicking it. However, his leg got stuck in the scarecrows glue and he was unable to get out. The Farmer eventually caught Kancil and put him in a cage. The farmers dog mocked Kancil, saying he will be cooked tomorrow. However, Kancil kept a straight face and claimed that he would marry the farmers daughter and become a prince. Kancil mocked the farmers dog by saying "look how your loyalties paid off!"The dog, frustrated by its work going unrewarded, requests to switch places so it can become a prince instead. Kancil is freed, and the Farmer is left very confused why his dog is in Kancils place. (Donr worry, the dog doesn't get cooked :])

[attex]

How about a Java mouse deer. Fucking miniscule

idk what those look like and anyways i am not going to be able to assign him (or anyone really) a fucking fursona (though i can judge..) that is not my specialty go ask an actual furry who has the right to speak on this

[bromojavatravel]

Mount Bromo, Baluran National Park tour 3 days is a combination of Mount Bromo tour package by private from Surabaya International Airport, Malang or Banyuwangi to enjoy Mount Bromo Sunrise tour from the high peak like Pananjakan, Kingkong or Seruni Point peal, Massive Sea of Sand, and Bromo mountain crater.

Then the next trip is to explore the Baluran Safari Park in Banyuwangi which consists of local animal habitats such as brown monkeys, buffalo (Bos javanicus javanicus), wild buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), ajag (Cuon alpinus javanicus), Baluran deer (Muntiacus muntjak muntjak), leopard (Panthera pardus melas), mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus melandoc), fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus). Some animals are usually invisible to humans up close because there are afraid of human appearances.

Baluran National Park also called Little Africa in Java Island, there are several natural destinations that you can visit in Baluran Banyuwangi, There are Savannah Bekol field, Evergreen Forest Bekol, and Bama Beach.

[impossiblestrangercollectionable]

La dame à la licorne

Gli animali dalle zampe fesse

Quanti animali vedete che abbiano la zampa fessa cioé lo zoccolo? C’é l’ipnotico (o ipnotizzato?) unicorno e poi quello strano cagnolino col muso appuntito, il quale non é un cagnolino...

Si potrebbe trattare di un Tragulo meglio conosciuto come topocervo (le uniche immagini somiglianti sono queste e non posso pubblicarle dovrete vederle direttamente sul sito:  https://www.alamy.it/tragulus-javanicus-stampa-il-mouse-java-deer-tragulus-javanicus-e-una-specie-di-anche-toed-ungulato-nella-famiglia-tragulidae-quando-si-raggiunge-la-maturita-e-circa-le-dimensioni-di-un-coniglio-il-che-lo-rende-il-piu-piccolo-ungulati-viventi-si-trovano-nelle-foreste-in-java-e-forse-di-bali-sebbene-gli-avvistamenti-non-sono-state-verificate-1700-1880-image328703655.html?imageid=F2985E1A-458B-4301-AD51-E877B46007DB&p=546931&pn=1&searchId=d6866be71c5f8580142d2624ebab8aa1&searchtype=0  )

Ne esistono diverse specie https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragulus  come potete leggere anche su Wikipedia, ma la cosa più importante é non solo che si trovano soprattutto in Malesia, quindi nella zona vicina all’Australia (la parte del continente sott’acqua), il continente semi-distrutto nel quale vivono gli animali più strani al mondo, quelli al confine fra due razze, fra due specie opposte, ma anche che potrebbero essere la chiave del mistero per eccellenza (o la bufala per eccellenza?): quella raccontata da Primo Levi in “Ranocchi sulla Luna e altri animali”, al capitolo “Figli del vento” (pag. 100 nell’edizione Einaudi)

Perché figli del vento? Perché i maschi della specie (dei roditori) di cui parla Levi affidano il loro sperma al vento, come fossero piante, e le femmine lo ricevono quindi per via aerea, cioé senza nessun contatto fisico con il maschio verità biologica o leggenda?  Questo dovete dirmelo voi perché i vicini del piano di sopra continuano a infettare l’aria con una sostanza, facendo finta di sbattere tappeti o pulire la scopa sulla ringhiera (cosa già di suo poco simpatica, soprattutto in periodo di pandemia) e l’aria si riempie di una strana sostanza che puzza come di grasso acido o di latte acido Questa stessa puzza l’avevano addosso il fratello e la cognata di mammina Di Filippo (lui morì cieco e paralizzato) ma anche l’automobile di Alfio D’Amico (il dj di Gela sosia dell’arcibishop di Canterbury Rowan Williams) Questa sostanza qualcuno la utilizza e probabilmente l’ha anche creata e si mormora in giro che si tratti di spore che entrano dentro lo pneuma e vi crescono dentro, che insomma si tratta delle spore dalle quali nascono gli esseri invisibili che dominano gli esseri umani facendoli diventare pazzi Questa leggenda deve essere molto antica se era già raccontata negli arazzi della Dama con l’unicorno e l’arazo stesso rappresenta poi in letteratura il contatto telepatico, cioé l’essere umano abitato dall’essere invisibile che può creare pseudo contatti telepatici con altri esseri umani, meglio comprensibili come una comunicazione vera e propria tra “ospiti” alla quale assistiamo da marionette senza alcun potere

Sembra che anche il Re dei Topi di Hoffmann sia un topo cervo e la parola “samen”, cioé sperma, é nascosta nella parola seltsam, cioé strano, che si ripete almeno una quindicina di volte nel testo In fondo si tratta di uno sposalizio, quindi quel che accade serve a conquistare una moglie, una moglie bambola più esattamente Quindi abbiamo il topo con sette teste e lo schiaccianoci che le teste le schiaccia, anche la testa più dura, e queste due cose sembrano essere essenziali per lo sposalizio Ma secondo la leggenda metropolitana che sta correndo per il mondo nella nostra epoca, lo “schiaccianoci” é l’arma elettromagnetica che stanno utilizzando i miei vicini di casa su di me e di tanto in tanto buttano sulla mia finestra aperta una quantità molto abbondante della loro sostanza puzzolente, poiché secondo questa leggenda occorre che la donna sia piena di un particolare campo magnetico perché le spore si appiccichino (ma si appiccicano dove? Mi sembra piuttosto impossibile che arrivino dentro l’utero) Quindi i miei vicini di casa starebbero cercando di fecondarmi per farmi mettere al mondo un Umpalumpa per dirla alla Roal Dahl, un Sammy Basso, per dirla più chiaramente

Verità biologica o bufala? A me puzza di bufala, ma vorrei che comunque raccoglieste dei campioni di questa sostanza che gli Alessi buttano nell’aria, per sapere di cosa si tratta, così magari se ne fanno una ragione e la smettono di spararmi addosso i loro taser elettromagnetici e di infettarmi l’aria 

Per quanto riguarda lo Schiaccianoci e il Re dei Topi di Hoffmann penso che racconti qualcosa di molto più interessante, ma al momento non so dirvi altro...

[mammalidentifier]

Java mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus)

look at his anger

now see him fabulous

[the-faunal-frontier]

Tragulus javanicus - Java Mouse-Deer

[photographe-a-roulettes]

Chevrotin malais - C'est le plus petit ongulé, et le plus petit cervidé du monde. Il n'a pas de bois, mais on reconnaît le mâle de la femelle à ses canines qui dépassent de sa bouche.

Lieu : Zoo de Lille