I didn’t believe this was real. Looked it up. Here’s a cool video. Don’t worry, the chevrotain wins this one.
They are even cuter in motion.
Wow. The chevrotain is much larger than I imagined it. I love how elegant it moves through the forest and the water. Is it me, or does its tail almost look flat like a beavers? And they use it to help guide themselves under water?
The Telugu name for the Indian spotted chevrotain is jarini pandi, which literally means “a deer and a pig”.
In Kannada, it is called barka (ಬರ್ಕ)
in Malayalam, it is called കൂരമാൻ kūramān
the Konkani name for it is barinka.
The Tamil term is சருகு மான் sarukumāṉ “leaf-pile deer”.
The Sinhala name meeminna roughly translates to “mouse-like deer”. This was used in the scientific name of the Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain, M. meminna.I am almost 40 years old yet each year I learn of a new animal that makes me go “what the fuck is that”
Hey, that is how I draw a dog. What are you saying?