Comments on: New Mouse-Deer

By: nick_beyondthetree

nick_beyondthetree — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:03:38 +0000

Thanks for the amazing pictures, Conservationreport. She really does look like a very natural swimmer. Fantastic. And, as always, thanks for the great article, Loren.

I remember reading about mouse-deer as a kid, about 20 years ago. Obviously, they were refered to as chevrotain, and there was no mention of different sub-species. In fact, they were not even acknowledged to live in Sri Lanka, only India. This may just have been poor writing, but the rest of the book (on a variety of different creatures, and which I had kept until about 6 years ago) was very well researched.

Well, it’s great to hear about these apparently diverse little dudes.

By: conservationreport

conservationreport — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:59:19 +0000

I have images of the mountain mouse-deer being chased via permission from the photographer at my site http://www.conservationreport.com/ or here
http://www.conservationreport.com/2008/03/one-of-sri-lankas-least-known-mammals.html

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:44:13 +0000

cute, but not enough meat for me. Someday I will get to hunt a moose.