Indian hog deer

Appearance

The ears are rounded. Older animals tend to become light coloured in the face and neck. The Indian hog deer's coat is quite thick, and generally a uniform dark-brown in winter, except for the underparts of the body and legs, that are lighter in colour. During late spring, the change to a summer coat of rich reddish-brown commences, although this may vary between individuals.

A mature hog deer stag stands about 70 centimetres (28 in) at the shoulder, and weighs approximately 50 kilograms (110 lb). Hinds are much smaller, standing about 61 centimetres (24 in) and weighing around 30 kilograms (66 lb).

Range and habitat

The Indian hog deer occurs in the Indus River valley in Pakistan, in northern India, Nepal, southern Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar China's Yunnan Province. The Indian hog deer, or Indochinese hog deer, is a small cervid native to the region of the Indian subcontinent and Indo-Gangetic Plain. Its name derives from the hog-like manner in that it runs through forests (with its head hung low), to ease ducking under obstacles instead of leaping over them, like most other deer.

Habitat labels include forest.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

Introduced populations are established in Australia, as well as the United States and Sri Lanka.

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix III. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Indian hog deer is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Indian hog deer, Wikidata item Q372169. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.