No picture available Chinese name: Roe deer

Chinese order: Artiodactyla

Chinese family: Deeridae

Chinese genus: Roe deer

Chinese common name: River muntjac, tooth deer

Latin name: Hydropotes inermis

English name: Chinese Water Deer

Species Namesake and Era: Swinhoe, 1870

Species Information: Body length 91-103cm, tail length 6-7cm, weight 14-17kg, both sexes without horns, the male roe deer has well-developed upper canines, which protrude out of the mouth to form fangs. There is no frontal gland and the infraorbital glands are small. The ears are relatively large, and the tail is extremely short and covered by rump hair. The hairs are coarse and brittle. Young roe deer hairs are spotted with wired colors and arranged in longitudinal rows. Distributed in Zhenjiang, Suzhou, and Wuxi, Jiangsu Province; Shanghai and Fengxian County; Tonglu and Ningbo, Zhejiang Province; Wuhu, Siachen County, Anhui Province; Yichang and Guangji, Hubei Province; and Yueyang, Hunan Province; in the 1980s it was distributed within the range of 24o to 34o N and east of 110o E. It is also distributed in the south to Liyuan and Renhua, Guangdong Province. South to Guangdong Liyuan, Renhua, Lechang, Lianxian, Guangxi's Guilin, Fujian's Ningde, Jinjiang and Putian, north to Jiangsu's Yancheng and Binhai area, Anhui's Bengbu; west to Hunan, Hubei; east to Zhejiang Zhoushan islands. Tian'e and Nandan counties in Guangxi, Shanglin and Wuxuan counties are also distributed, and its distribution area advances westward to 106.5oE, 23oN. However, the roe deer in the valleys is now distributed in isolated dots or small patches. They inhabit riverbanks, lakesides, grassy flats in the center of lakes, beach reeds or thatch, and also live in grassy scrub on the forest margins of low hills and islands. They select grassy flats or sparse scrub habitats with water nearby. They are good swimmers and can migrate from island to island and island to beach. In the hills and islands, the roe deer can live in the scrub, but more often choose the grass. In Zhoushan, there are more muntjacs than roe deer in dense shrub habitats, and more roe deer than muntjacs in thatched slopes or sparsely forested areas. In Poyang Lake, 79.3% of the roe deer chose the shorter tussock grasses, and 20.7% chose the higher mangrove grasses. Most of them were active alone, most frequently in the morning and evening. It feeds on young leaves of shrubs and weeds, and often goes to nearby farmland to eat vegetables, leguminous crops and potato leaves. oestrus occurs in November-January, with a peak in December, and the gestation period is 168-170 days, with an average of 2-4 litters per litter, an average of 2.17 litters per year old roe deer, and an average of 2.73 litters per year old adult roe deer. Named subspecies (H.i inermis Swinhoe, 1870) Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hubei; Korean subspecies (H.i argyropus Korean river deer Heude, 1884) N Korea, E Liaoning border.

Primary musk (Siberian musk, northern musk, musk deer, roe deer) Moschus moschiferus

Date: 2004-12-5 Source: Hits: 303

British name: . Musk Deer; Siberian Musk Deer.

Morphological features: adult body mostly with pale Earth-colored pockmarks; tear bones taller than long. Weight 8-13kg, shoulder height 56-61cm. both male and female without horns. Ears are long and erect, rounded in the upper part. The eyes are large and the muzzle end is bare. Male musk upper canine teeth are well developed, long and pointed, exposed outside the mouth. The hind limbs are about 1/3-1/4 longer than the front limbs, so the recommendation is obviously high. Male musk groin with musk glands, sac-like, slightly elevated outside. There are two small openings in the center of the outer skin of the sac, the front for the mouth of the scent sac, and the back for the mouth of the urethra. The hair of the whole body is dark brown, and the dorsum of the adult is covered with yellowish spots, mostly arranged in six rows. The lower jaw is white, and the sides of the neck each have white hairs extending to the armpits in two white banded lines. The groin, inner limbs and rump are light brownish gray, the outer limbs are dark brown, and the tail is light brown (Liang Zongqi, 1985).

Distribution: Altay, Burqin, Habahe, Jimunai, Fuyun, Qinghe.

Estimate: inhabits mountainous coniferous forests or mixed coniferous and broad forests. It is solitary, active in the morning and evening, and has a wide diet, often feeding on young leaves of shrubs and herbs and lichens (Sheng and Lin, 1999).

Protection: China: Class II Species under Key Protection (listed in the "National List of Wildlife under Key Protection"). "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): Appendix II.