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Chevrotain
Greater mouse-deer (Tragulus napu) - Danum Valley, Malaysia
Another instance when I wasn't able to get a good shot but I still wanted to post the photo. This is a greater mouse-deer also known as the greater Malay chevrotain or napu (Tragulus napu). These house cat sized deer were occasionally seen during my night hikes but they were usually quite shy and I wasn't ever able to sneak up close to them. I could see their eyeshine from far away though and could follow them from a distance. On one occasion I managed to get slightly lost in the jungle at night doing that, but luckily I was able to find my way back to the trail. Its understandable that these deer are shy as they must be preyed on by a wide variety of animals in the jungle, I would imagine the various cat species found in Borneo would be capable of taking one of these down but I don't know enough about them to say for sure, there is no doubt that the clouded leopard would easily dispatch a mouse deer. Reticulated pythons must also prey on these and I suspect certain birds of prey also function as predators of these diminutive little deer. They have a home range which they seem to stick to, I encountered mouse deer (I assume the same individuals) in the exact same place night after night and one of our camera traps got 1000s of photos of a mouse deer moving around in the same area day after day, night after night. These deer are pretty cool, the males have elongated canines that look like fangs, males dont have horn but they have these tusks instead. If you view this photo large and look at his chin you can actually see the sharp fang/tusk, it looks a bit out of place on an animal like this. This is the best photo of one I could manage, however they frequently appeared in our camera traps and the camera traps got some much better photos, but I can't post those.
Chevrotain
Greater mouse-deer (Tragulus napu) - Danum Valley, Malaysia
Another instance when I wasn't able to get a good shot but I still wanted to post the photo. This is a greater mouse-deer also known as the greater Malay chevrotain or napu (Tragulus napu). These house cat sized deer were occasionally seen during my night hikes but they were usually quite shy and I wasn't ever able to sneak up close to them. I could see their eyeshine from far away though and could follow them from a distance. On one occasion I managed to get slightly lost in the jungle at night doing that, but luckily I was able to find my way back to the trail. Its understandable that these deer are shy as they must be preyed on by a wide variety of animals in the jungle, I would imagine the various cat species found in Borneo would be capable of taking one of these down but I don't know enough about them to say for sure, there is no doubt that the clouded leopard would easily dispatch a mouse deer. Reticulated pythons must also prey on these and I suspect certain birds of prey also function as predators of these diminutive little deer. They have a home range which they seem to stick to, I encountered mouse deer (I assume the same individuals) in the exact same place night after night and one of our camera traps got 1000s of photos of a mouse deer moving around in the same area day after day, night after night. These deer are pretty cool, the males have elongated canines that look like fangs, males dont have horn but they have these tusks instead. If you view this photo large and look at his chin you can actually see the sharp fang/tusk, it looks a bit out of place on an animal like this. This is the best photo of one I could manage, however they frequently appeared in our camera traps and the camera traps got some much better photos, but I can't post those.