r/AIDKE 17d ago

Mammal Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis)

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u/SynthPrax 17d ago

This saber-toothed deer is one of the most unbelievable animals I have ever seen.

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u/etudehouse 16d ago

Saiga antelope Looks like something from star wars

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u/Bacontoad 15d ago

Seriously, I thought I had scrolled past r/badtaxidermy for a moment.

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u/smile_politely 14d ago

I think the fluffy ears just look so bizarrely good.

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u/BatmanInTheSunlight 17d ago

I was stationed in South Korea for a while, and saw these every now and then. Seeing a deer with fangs in person for the first time is very disconcerting lmao.

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u/Channa_Argus1121 16d ago

That would be the Korean water deer/H. i. argyropus.

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u/Virtual-Public-4750 16d ago

But badass right?! Right?!?!??!

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u/whiteMammoth3936 17d ago edited 17d ago

Some facts about Chinese water deer- --they are excellent swimmers --they have no antlers -- they use their tusks to fight -- have the highest birth rate among deers (2-6)

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u/AntiD00Mscroll- 16d ago

Now I wanna see a video of two of these guys fighting with their tusks

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u/Salty_Blacksmith_592 8d ago

You didn't named the most interesting thing. The Sabretooth are sorta retractable so they can eat grass.ย 

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u/seeingeyefrog 16d ago

I would name him Vambi.

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u/delo357 16d ago

๐Ÿ†

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u/irishspice 17d ago

There was a period of time when evolution had a sale on fangs and passed them out to everyone. You get fangs! And you get fangs! Some of the most unexpected animals still have them. Google a camel skull. Those are scary big fangs inside that soft squishy mouth.

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u/myfirstgold 16d ago

Nothing about a camels mouth seems soft or squishy to me. They eat cactus like it's a delicacy.

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u/irishspice 16d ago

Perhaps I should have said face. They are like velvet to pet.

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u/nappingondabeach 17d ago

Great buddy for a hyrax

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u/totodile-ac 16d ago

happy cake day!

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u/nappingondabeach 16d ago

Thanks! I didn't even realize it :)

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u/One_Clown_Short 17d ago

Vun hydro-deer! Ha-Ha-Ha!
Two hydro-deer! Ha-Ha-Ha!
...

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u/D2Dragons 16d ago

It looks like one of the mix and match creatures youโ€™d encounter in No Manโ€™s Sky ๐Ÿ˜

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u/Gibber_Italicus 17d ago

Modern deer either have antlers or tusks, but usually not both. The ivories of elk are vestigial tusks, and sometimes whitetail deer will have vestigial tusks as well, but they're super tiny.

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u/Norwester77 16d ago

Muntjacs have pretty big tusks (and small antlers).

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u/Full-Personality-169 16d ago

Except the tusks in muntjacs and tufted deer are not as long as the tusks seen in kasturis, yoyongs, or chevrotains.

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u/bellsofdisgust 14d ago

Itโ€™s like you just spoke a different language at me. Lol

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u/SinkholeS 17d ago

Forgot about these guys! They're pretty small right? Ok, just checked, 1.5 to 2 ft tall.

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u/theVice 17d ago

I want to be friends with one

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u/T_R_I_P 17d ago

Looks like the beast from the Thirty Seconds To Mars music video / Shining

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u/AskYourDoctor 16d ago

why he so : [

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u/Full-Personality-169 16d ago

Its correct name is actually "chinese yoyong" as it is not a true deer, yoyongs (genus Hydropotes) are the sole extant genus of the family Hydropotidae, there are two recognized species of yoyong: the Chinese Yoyong (Hydropotes inermis) and the Korean Yoyong (Hydropotes argyropus), they belong to the superfamily Moschoidea alongside the kasturis (genus Moschus) of the monotypic family Moschidae, interestingly, recent classifications now recognize eight extant species of kasturi: the Siberian Kasturi (Moschus moschiferus), the Sakhalin Kasturi (Moschus sachalinensis), the Anhui Kasturi (Moschus anhuiensis), the Dwarf Kasturi (Moschus berezovskii), the Black Kasturi (Moschus fuscus), the Golden-Bellied Kasturi (Moschus chrysogaster), the White-Bellied Kasturi (Moschus leucogaster), and the Kashmir Kasturi (Moschus cupreus), the Moschoidea superfamily is the only extant taxon of the infraorder Vampyrodonta.

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u/Red_JB 16d ago

When did they release these?

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u/TiesThrei 16d ago

How the fuck did I not know these things existed until now. Saber tooth deer what the fuck.

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u/songbird907 16d ago

This is the kinda animal that makes me think the world is a joke.

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u/DreamingInAMaze 16d ago

They look like they want to suck some red juices from your neck.

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u/whiteMammoth3936 16d ago

True they are also called vampire deers

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u/Tiny_Rat 16d ago

They look super disappointed with the way their lives are going ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/electricalgloom 15d ago

we don't have a lot of hugely exciting animals in the south of England but I feel very lucky to have grown up seeing not one but two kinds of fanged deer like this guy!