Lesser mouse-deer
Tragulus javanicus / Lesser mouse-deer
- Habitat
- Forests near bodies of water
- Continent
- Asia
- Food
- Foliage, knsopen, fruits, insects
- Gestation/breeding period
- 140 days
- Mode of life
- Solitary
- Class
- Mammals
- Order
- Artiodactyla
Key facts
~ 50 cm
lenght
~ 1.7 kg
weight
~ 12 years
age
How endangered are Lesser mouse-deers?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
-
Least concern Least concern - Near threatened
- Vulnerable
- Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
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The lesser mouse-deer is the smallest hoofed animal on earth.
Lesser mouse-deer on the zoo tour
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