Deer are a very beautiful animal, and many people like it very much. When it comes to deer, everyone should be familiar with it, but in general, the size of deer is still relatively medium, and some of them will be larger. Deer are a family of mammalian ungulates, and their most distinctive feature is that males have a pair of forked horns. Deer come in all sizes, ranging from large to rabbit-sized deer. So do you know what the smallest deer in the world is called? The following small editor takes you to know the world's smallest deer - the small shrew deer, let's take a look at it!
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The small shrew deer is a forest-dwelling animal, a species of Subspecies in Yunnan, China, that lives mainly in the jungle deep grasses of Mengla, Shangyong and Mengyuan in Xishuangbanna. They are super small deer, generally weighing 1.3 kg to 2 kg and growing in length from 42 cm to 63 cm.
The small shrews look very small, especially compared to the larger deer, they are too small, and they are about the size of a hare. And there is a very peculiar thing about this deer, that is, they have no horns in both males and females. Not only are they as big as rabbits, they run like rabbits. They are relatively lonely in temperament, generally like to be alone, and rarely accept living together. Even in estrus, male and female weasels will run their own things after mating.
Today's baby shrew deer is not only the smallest deer in the world, but also the smallest ungulates in the world. They look like young deer that don't have horns yet, and they're very miniature. But their eyes are very large, a bit like rodents. The baby weasel is a nocturnal animal that usually hides in the grass during the day.
The small weasel is mainly distributed in the Indochina Peninsula, Java and Sumatra islands in Southeast Asia, and can also be seen in the southwest of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China. The shrew deer prefer to inhabit the dense forest shrubs and grasses of tropical mountain hills, hide during the day, and only come out in the morning and dusk, and their food is mainly figs, cannon flowers, thorn flowers and other flowers and other wild fruits. They have an innate fear of water, and once forced into the water, they will lie on the ground and stay still after leaving the water, and it will take a long time to return to normal. They can give birth three times a year, and each litter can give birth to 1 to 2 litters, but because of their many natural enemies, the number of existing children has always been very small.
The small shrew deer is smaller than the average deer, and is a rare and rare animal in China, with certain ornamental value. In addition, the shrew deer is the most primitive of the deer family, and it maintains many of the original characteristics of the deer family, so it has important scientific research value.