Not much bigger than a Sharpie marker, a baby Greater Malayan Chevrotain was born at the Topeka Zoo on October 16.
This fawn, born to parents Nabisco and Wilma, is the second ever born at the Topeka Zoo.
Photo Credit: Wrylie Guthrie (1, 4); Topeka Zoo (2,3,5)
With legs about the size of pencils, adult Chevrotains weigh only 10-13 pounds. Males have small curved tusks. This species is sometimes called the Mouse Deer, though they are not true deer.
These ungulates are native to Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia, where they dwell in forests and feed on fruit and berries. Threats from overhunting and deforestation have caused this species to decline in the wild.
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