Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates
The Southern Pudu (Pudu puda) is an enchanting, diminutive forest ungulate and the second-smallest deer species on Earth, surpassed in smallness only by its northern Andean cousin. Belonging to the New World deer subfamily Capreolinae within the family Cervidae, this...
Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates
The Chinese Water Deer (Hydropotes inermis), colloquially celebrated worldwide as the ‘vampire deer’, is an extraordinary, primitive ungulate native to the fertile river floodplains and coastal reed beds of east-central China and the Korean Peninsula....
Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates
The Sambar Deer (Rusa unicolor) is the largest and most ecologically formidable species of cervid native to the tropical and subtropical biomes of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Standing as tall as an elk with a rugged, dark chestnut-to-charcoal coat and...
Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates
The Elk (Cervus canadensis), also widely known by the Shawnee name ‘Wapiti’ meaning ‘white rump,’ is one of the largest, most majestic members of the deer family Cervidae native to North America and central-eastern Asia. Revered for its...
Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates
The White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus), commonly known simply as the whitetail, is an agile, medium-sized cervid belonging to the deer family Cervidae. Renowned for its graceful physique, reddish-brown summer coat that transitions to dense greyish-brown in...
