Talk:Chevrotain

Picture
I suggest add an image ( in the articles about animal and plants the images are a must be ..) of a Chevrotain.

You can see in the public domain image or capture an image with your digital camera and donate it to the public domain.

Or at, least, a link to a web page where there is a picture of the animal / plant. Later, the readers / editors of the wiki can add a free (public domain) photo (i.e. from a zoo, a botanical garden...).

What's up with that one imagine? It looks like, below the deer in the hay, someone copied and pasted stuff over it. Like to cover something? --Mithcoriel (talk) 14:22, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Trivia Section
I have deleted the trivia section formerly included with this article. I incorporated some of the information into the text, but deleted the following:


 * The Central Park Zoo in New York City has two Greater Mouse Deer in its rain forest exhibit.
 * The Bronx Zoo in New York City has a Mouse Deer in its Jungleworld pavilion.

This information does not appear encyclopaedic, or particularly useful, as I dare say many zoos have specimens. Anaxial (talk) 09:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Similarities to Muntjac Deer
The recent news article about the Mouse-Deer's |aquatic predilections described them, as this article does, as having noticeably enlarged canines. This is a characteristic that I noted when trying to evict what was identified to me as a Muntjac (common feral introduced animals in England) ; however this characteristic isn't noted in the Muntjac page. Which suggests that either the identification I was given was wrong and perhaps Mouse-Deer are also wild in Britain, or that there is a significant error in the Muntjac page. Since I'm not a great one for the non-fossilised animals, I raise the question here in hope of finding a better informed audience. Aidan Karley (talk) 13:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Like yourself, I'm not an expert but this image might help you - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/155547/6668/Chinese-muntjac. DaveK@BTC (talk) 14:04, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Smallest ungulate?
"The lesser mouse deer of Southeast Asia is the smallest of all ungulates, at a mature size as little as around 45 cm (18 inches) and 2 kg (4.4 lb)." ...The Pudu is smaller at 13 inches, according to its article. Should I change this, or is there more to the matter?24.108.37.224 (talk) 17:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The Lesser Mouse-deer is much smaller than either species of pudú. 18 inches is the length of the Lesser Mouse-deer, while 13 inches is the lowest height of the Northern Pudú (the Southern is larger). However, there have been considerable taxonomic changes in the genus Tragulus, and I am not sure the Lesser Mouse-deer still is the smallest (some of the other members of the genus may be smaller). 212.10.95.14 (talk) 16:48, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Chevrotain and Mouse Deer
These two pages are similar but also conflicting. They both claim to be the smallest ungulate / hoofed mammal and both admit that the terms "chevrotain" and "mouse deer" can be used interchangeably. So either merge the two pages or make it clear that they're distinct?
 * not sure where you are seeing that. Mouse Deer is just a redirect to Chevrotain? This article says that Chevrotains are the smallest hoofed mammals in the world, which is true for the group, and Lesser mouse-deer states that this is the smallest within that group. What is confusing? -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:54, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

size
This is an incomplete article. Please include additional size dimensions (male/female length, etc.). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.146.144.86 (talk) 03:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Error in convert template
The phrase 0.7 and 8.0 kg translates the second number at 17.6 pounds, a decimal point error; should be 1.76 pounds. -motorfingers- (talk) 16:47, 3 May 2014 (UTC)


 * If that were the case, the place to raise it would be Template talk:Convert, where they would be able to fix the error. However, the calculation seems correct to me, with no decimal point error: 8 kg is 17.6 lbs, not 1.76 lbs. Anaxial (talk) 17:37, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

A section on folklore
The mousedeer plays a core role in Malay folklore. Hugh Clifford wrote about it in the late 19th century, as an early Western source. I haven't checked the Malay version of the article for a folklore section. I'll update when there's anything related worth translating. 103.1.71.149 (talk) 08:15, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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