Fanged mouse-deer identified after vanishing for a generation

National Geographic ^ | Nov 11, 2019 | STEPHEN LEAHY

[Flick Lives]

Saber tooth mice. Something for saber tooth cats to chase.

[logi_cal869]

After all the bombs & chemicals we dumped on the country, who the hell is surprised? /s

Yawn.

[octex]

Aren’t rodents mammals, Jane?

[MayflowerMadam]

“Adam Schiff comes to mind.”

LOL! How true.

[gundog]

Cervids, I would think. And rodents are mammals.

[gundog]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_mouse-deer

[American in Israel]

They’re back? Must be Global warming...

[Professional]

Lol!

[BobL]

This animal belongs down under.

[Jane Long]

Of course.

Unless they’re the DS swamp kind.

;-)

[Rebelbase]

One bag lasts all season!

[Daffynition]

LOL I have enough problems! LOL You're a trouble maker, ya know?

Have you seen this one from this week?

Meet Narwhal - The Puppy With A Tail On His Face

[Daffynition]

I wonder what ever happened to our poster *Sabertooth*?

[BeauBo]

I think their lives are more like deer than rodents. Those long legs seem unsuitable for burrowing. In fact, they are the smallest hoofed mammals in the world. They are ruminants, and have four-chambered stomachs to ferment tough plant foods like deer or cattle. In other ways, however, they have primitive features, closer to nonruminants such as pigs. They run more like pigs, have teeth more like pigs, and mate more like pigs (no pun intended).

But they are their own kind of animal, and different variations of chevrotains live across Asia and Africa. The water chervotain in Africa stays under water for a long time to avoid predators. Some scientists theorize that whales initially evolved from a similar sort of small deer.

[null and void]

Fanged deer=Darksheare

[dsrtsage]

Global warming brought about the ideal conditions for the mouses triumphant return

[Darksheare]

Now, I can unequivocally state that this is not my fault.