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	Muntjac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muntjac are deer of the genus Muntiacus, also known as Barking Deer.
		Muntjac are the oldest known deer, appearing 15-35 million years ago, with remains found in Miocene deposits in France and Germany.
		Muntjac are of great interest in evolutionary studies because of their dramatic chromosome variations and recent discoveries of several new species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muntjac_Deer (171 words)

	MUNTJAC - LoveToKnow Article on MUNTJAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As regards general characteristics, all muntjacs are small compared with the majority of deer, and have long bodies and rather short limbs and neck.
		In the Indian muntjac the height of the buck is from 20 to 22 in.; allied types, some of which have received distinct names, occur in Burma and the Malay Peninsula and Islands.
		The Tenasserim muntjac (C. feae), about the size of the Indian species, is closely allied to the hairy-fronted muntjac (C. crinifrons) of eastern China, but lacks the tuft of hair on the forehead.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MU/MUNTJAC.htm (571 words)

	Deer,Mammals,Deer Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia
		Deer hides (buckskin) were used for clothing, and antlers were made into tools and weapons and were used in picture writing.
		Among the deer of Europe and Asia are the moose (smaller than the American moose, and called elk), reindeer, fallow deer, red deer, axis deer, muntjac, and musk deer.
		Pere David's deer of China are extremely rare and are probably extinct in the wild; they are being bred in zoos in hopes of returning stock to their native territory in northern China.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=42 (3539 words)

	Deer
		Defined strictly, a deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.
		Deer are widely distributed, with representatives in all continents except Australia and Africa.
		Deer meat, for which they are hunted and farmed, is called venison.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/de/deer.html (532 words)

	Deer in the UK - Muntjac Deer - Muntiacus reevesi - Reeves Muntjac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Because Muntjac spend a considerable amount of time with their heads down browsing they appear hunched forward, this often causes the incorrect identification of them as Chinese Water Deer, who are naturally hunched forward, even when not foraging.
		Muntjac are solitary territorial creatures but as they do not have a specific breeding season are often be seen in pairs browsing young trees and vegetation.
		Muntjac are capable of breeding all year round, the gestation period is seven months and one kid is born per pregnancy.
	www.wilddeer.co.uk /muntjac-deer.htm (614 words)

	Olympus FluoView Resource Center: Confocal Gallery - Indian Muntjac Deer Skin Fibroblast Cells
		Muntjac cells are negative for reverse transcriptase, indicating the lack of integral retrovirus genomes.
		The Indian Muntjac deer skin fibroblast cells presented in the digital image above were resident in an adherent culture stained for F-actin with Alexa Fluor 546 conjugated to phalloidin, and for DNA with the red-absorbing dye TO-PRO-3 (pseudocolored blue).
		Muntjac Skin Cells Labeled for Tubulin with Immunofluorescence - In order to visualize the microtubules present in a culture of Indian Muntjac fibroblasts, the cells were immunofluorescently labeled with anti-tubulin mouse monoclonal primary antibodies followed by goat anti-mouse Fab fragments conjugated to Alexa Fluor 488.
	www.olympusfluoview.com /gallery/cells/muntjac/muntjaccells.html (1218 words)

	Muntjac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Muntjac are capable of breeding at 8 months old and breed all year round.
		Muntjac are active throughout the 24-hour period but make more use of open spaces during the hours of darkness in populations experiencing frequent disturbance.
		Muntjac trophy hunting is only recently becoming popular and so muntjac stalking has little tradition on country and forest estates.
	www.bds.org.uk /PageL3.asp?PageName=Education&PageNameL2=Species&PageNameL3=Muntjac (545 words)

	* Muntjac - (Animals): Definition
		Muntjacs are small deer of the genus Muntiacus in the family, Cervidae, found from India to China through southeast Asia into the East Indies...
		The Reeve's muntjac is a small, dainty member of the deer family...
		The barking deer, or muntjac, is a small deer of S Asia.
	en.mimi.hu /animals/muntjac.html (340 words)

	Muntjac Deer information, ecological notes about muntjac, pictures, sounds and video clips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was supposed that the Reeves and Indian Muntjac interbred, however it is now known that due to a difference in their chromosome count this is unlikely and it is further purported that even if hybridisation were successful, the offspring would be infertile.
		Muntjac’s hooves are cloven and are often asymmetrical with cases of the disfigurement Aladdin's Slipper occasionally found in marshy habitats.
		It is quite usual to see a mature Muntjac with large antlers and small broken tusks which conforms to the idea of the antlers developing with age and the tusks being worn and damaged by time and use.
	www.deer-uk.com /muntjac_deer.htm (2743 words)

	Comparative Placentation > Deer Species
		Deer species have a worldwide distribution and there are numerous breeding colonies, of many different species, in zoological gardens and on ranches.
		The early attachment of deer blastocysts is mesometrial and it is confined to the uterine caruncles.
		The placenta of some deer species produces a pregnancy-specific protein B PSPB) which Huang and colleagues (1999) found to be similar, in preparations from moose and elk, to that extracted from cow and sheep placentas.
	medicine.ucsd.edu /cpa/deer.html (5960 words)

	Nikon MicroscopyU: Fluorescence Microscopy Digital Image Gallery - Indian Muntjac Deer Skin Fibroblast Cells
		Indian Muntjac cells are known to be susceptible to a variety of viruses, including vesicular stomatitis, (Indiana strain), herpes simplex, and vaccinia.
		Indian Muntjac Fibroblasts Triple Labeled with SYTOX Green, Alexa Fluor 350, and MitoTracker Red CMXRos - The culture of Indian Muntjac deer skin fibroblast cells presented in this section was labeled for the cytoskeletal filamentous actin network with Alexa Fluor 350 conjugated to phalloidin, and for the cell nucleus with SYTOX Green.
		Visualizing the Golgi Complex in Deer Skin Cells - A monolayer culture of Indian Muntjac cells was fixed, permeabilized, and blocked with 10-percent normal goat serum in phosphate-buffered saline prior to immunofluorescent labeling with rabbit primary antibodies to giantin, a protein resident in the Golgi complex of mammalian cells.
	www.microscopyu.com /galleries/fluorescence/cells/muntjac/muntjac.html (1458 words)

	Rainforests -- Wildlife of the Amazon
		The latest addition to the Muntjac family was only discovered in the late 1990s when a giant and miniature Muntjac were discovered in a remote area on the borders of Vietnam and Laos.
		Muntjac are the oldest of all known deer and are therefore prehistoric; they retain characteristics which have since disappeared in our own native species of deer.
		The Reeves Muntjac (or "Barking Deer" as it is colloquially known) has in approximately eighty years adapted to living in Britain.
	www.freewebs.com /katiewhite/herbavores.htm (913 words)

	Muntjac cull north of border? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Populations of muntjac are resident in some areas south of the border and the potential for the species becoming established in Scotland should not be ignored.' The following headline appears to be a misinterpretation of a planned cull of Sika deer
		The muntjac, the sika and the fallow deer are all earmarked for destruction in a consultation document outlining a 20-year plan for the management of Scotland’s deer.
		It says there should be no future for muntjac in Scotland; recent expansions in fallow deer populations should be reversed; and the numbers and impact of the sika should be controlled and reduced.
	www.bigcats.org /esa/muntjac.html (423 words)

	muntjac
		It is a solitary deer, sticking to its small territories and eating shrub leaves.
		The spread of Muntjac could be seen easily, and there distribution showed a distinctive 'jump' pattern, with new groups being found every 60 km North.
		The Muntjac deer is increasing its range in Britain and can be found in woodland throughout the British midlands.
	www.geocities.com /magicgoatman/muntjac.html (326 words)

	Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure
		Muntjac deer are sometimes known as the "barking deer" because they will emit a barking sound to warn others of predators and to identify individuals.
		As muntjacs mature, the upper canine teeth are elongated into 'tusks' that curve outward from the lips.
		Male muntjac deer have antlers that are shed periodically.
	www.rollinghillswildlife.com /animals/d/deermuntjac (134 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Reeves' Muntjac deer, Chinese muntjac, barking deer
		Muntjac deer were introduced to Woburn Park, Bedfordshire in the early 20th Century.
		Muntjacs are small deer, with dark red-brown fur and white patches on the chin, throat and rump.
		Muntjacs are native to SE China and Taiwan, but they have been introduced to parks in England and France.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/275.shtml (287 words)

	The Deer Initiative
		At least five species of muntjac are known, with a distribution from Pakistan to Java and north to mainland China.
		The spread of the Reeves' muntjac throughout the Midlands over the last 80 years is shown in the distribution map.
		Muntjac are territorial and the social unit is a family group, with young adults being driven off before the arrival of the next fawn(4).
	www.thedeerinitiative.co.uk /html/muntdeer.htm (303 words)

	Deer Artiodactyl Mammals
		Deer are hunted for sport and for their meat, which is called venison.
		Deer were originally brought there by European settlers, and the deer population rose rapidly, causing great environmental damage.
		The white-tailed deer, or Virginia deer, is classified as Odocoileus virginianus; the mule, or fl-tailed, deer as Odocoileus hemionus; and the American elk, or wapiti, as Cervus elaphus.
	www.orderoutdoors.com /wl4d.htm (896 words)

	deer -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Deer occur mainly in forests but may be found in habitats as diverse as deserts, tundra,...
		The deer family's second largest member is Cervus elaphus, which is called the wapiti or elk in North America and the red deer in the rest of its range.
		Fallow deer (Dama dama) are a woodland species now mostly in Europe that are more restricted in their range than red or roe deer.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9029728&query=deer (736 words)

	Reeve's muntjac - Muntiacus reevesi: More Information - ARKive
		Reeve's muntjac is native to China and Taiwan, and was introduced to the UK in 1894 to Woburn Park (3).
		Reeve's muntjac is active throughout the day and night, with peaks of activity at dawn and dusk (2).
		This deer is a solitary species; although individuals may occur in the same area (6).
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/mammals/Muntiacus_reevesi/more_info.html (726 words)

	Here you will find more items under this Wildlife Category (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Muntjac are the oldest of all known deer and are therefore prehistoric; they retain characteristics...
		The Reeves Muntjac (or "Barking Deer" as it...
		Deer Park hotel is situated in the grounds of historic Howth Castle and surrounded on all sides by parkland...
	www.ourpetsworld.com /uk_display.asp?category=Wildlife&item=Deer (2838 words)

	Chinese Water Deer
		In April and May the deer shed their winter coat as a sleek summer coat grows through, taking on an unkempt appearance as their old coat falls away leaving what seem to be bald patches.
		Chinese Water Deer are capable of multiple births, with as many as seven fetuses previously recorded in a pregnant doe in China, but the highest number on record in England is four.
		Whilst it is common to see a number of deer feeding in close proximity, they are going about their own business and will disperse in different directions, except fawns which will follow their dam.
	www.angelfire.com /empire/zooempire/chinesewaterdeer.html (2552 words)

	Barking Deer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This shy and elusive member of the deer family is spread across all the dense jungles of India.
		A definite identification mark to recognise a barking deer is from the two raised dark ridges on the forehead that extend into its antlers.
		A unique trait of the Barking deer is that, unlike other members of the deer family, they possess a pair of antlers as well as overgrown canines known as tushes.
	www.wildlywise.com /barking_deer.htm (353 words)

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		Muntjac's favourite place to live is in bramble thickets/ flberry bushes, especially in young or mixed woodland.
		The female deer is called a doe, the male deer is called a buck.
		Muntjac's also feed on Yew a plant which is poisonous to many other animals, including humans.
	www.wildlifetrust.org.uk /urbanwt/education/wildlifeeducationwebsite/deer.htm (497 words)

	Animal Fact Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Muntjacs are normally found in forests, areas of dense vegetation and hilly country from sea level to medium elevations.
		Because of this bark, these deer often are referred to as “barking deer.” A muntjac can bark for an hour or more, warning all types of animals of the presence of a predator such as a leopard, tiger or python.
		Muntjacs are hunted for their meat and skins and are considered pests in some areas because they destroy trees by ripping off the bark.
	www.zoo.org /educate/fact_sheets/Muntjac/muntjac.htm (1045 words)

	Julie's Jungle :: Quality Exotic Pets :: Muntjac Deer Caresheet
		In the wild, young muntjacs remain hidden in dense jungle growth until they are able to move about with their dams.
		In the wild, muntjacs are usually found alone or in groups of less than 4 individuals.
		Muntjac deer emit a barking sound to warn others of predators and to identify individuals.
	www.juliesjungle.com /muntjac.php (145 words)

	sikkim info - Muntiacus Muntjac, Barking deer
		Muntiacus Muntjac or the Barking deer is called Kha-Sha by the Lhopas and Su-Koo by the Rongs.
		It is also called the Rib-Faced Deer, as the antlers grow from a pair of elongated skin covered pedicles, which is an extension of two raised bony tissues, which mark the forehead of the deer.
		Barking Deer are still plentiful in Sikkim, however we must not be complaisant; grazing of domesticated animals such as cattle goats and sheep in the forest can result in the deer having to compete with livestock for grazing.
	www.sikkiminfo.net /barking_deer.htm (392 words)

	Animal Info - Fea's Muntjac
		Reasons for the decline of Fea's muntjac include hunting (including armed insurgents living off the land) and the increase of human settlement.
		Fea's muntjac is usually found in evergreen forests in upland areas.
		China it has been found in mountainous forest comprised of a mixture of coniferous, broad-leaf forest or shrub forest at an altitude of 2500 m (8200').
	www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/muntfeae.htm (446 words)

	Animal Info - Leaf Muntjac
		Hunting with snares has apparently reduced the leaf muntjac's numbers over the last decade, even though it is not considered a particularly valuable species because of its small size and antlers.
		The leaf muntjac is found in dense forest habitats at an elevation of 450 - 600 m (1500 - 2000'), the transition zone between tropical lowland forests and higher temperate forests
		Young muntjacs are generally born in dense jungle growth, where they remain hidden until they can move around with their mother
	www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/muntputa.htm (430 words)

	Muntjac Deer
		Special features: This deer is a native of south China and was first brought to the U.K. in 1840.
		Some were released into the grounds of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire where they escaped into the surrounding countryside.
		They are sometimes called barking deer on account of the dog-like noise they make.
	www.uksafari.com /muntjac.htm (107 words)

	Reeves's muntjac
		The body is rounded, and the legs are slender, the overall form resembling that of the South American agouti.
		Captive observations indicate that the Reeves's muntjac is primarily crepuscular, active at dawn and dusk, although both diurnal and nocturnal activity have been reported.
		When alarmed or in the presence of potential danger, muntjacs make a sharp barking sound, which is surprisingly loud and gives them their alternate name "barking deer".
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Muntiacus_reevesi.html (377 words)

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