Educational resources on Chinese Water Deer

Chinese Water Deer or Hydropotes inermis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Near Threatened . IUCN Profile of the Chinese Water Deer

Academic web links for the Chinese Water Deer.

ADW: Hydropotinae: Specimens: Specimens; Classification. Chinese water deer Hydropotes inermis, Chinese water
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/specimens/Hydropotinae.html

Nat'l Academies Press, Microlivestock: (1991), 30 Water Deer: In winter, the coat is thick and variable in color; pale fawn ~ They are also known
http://www.nap.edu/openbook/030904295X/html/321.html

China’s Exotic and Zoo Animals: Uses: o Eggs are often used as caviar. Chinese Water Deer. ¨ Classification: Hydropotes
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~tstewart/ansc295K/China/Factsheets/exotic_and_zoo_animals-roley.htm

Desert Diary, 4 June 2004: Sabertooth Deer: ...of North America, to the antler as the hallmark of deer, that it comes as a shock
http://museum.utep.edu/archive/mammals/DDsabertoothdeer.htm

Comparative Placentation > Deer Species: This study of binucleate cells contrasts with Wooding's more recent studies of placentas
http://medicine.ucsd.edu/cpa/deer.html

Wolves in the Upper Great Lakes: Population Status: stable Legal Status: protected by law for one year Main Prey:
http://seaborg.nmu.edu/wolf/4World_Wolves.html

artiodactyls: 19.7C] complex (forked); usually in males only: present in female Rangifer; absent
http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/Biology/Mammalogy/systematics/A7artiodactyla.htm

Antlers in deer most likely exist to use in combat: ..."This joke will sleigh you.". A distinguishing characteristic of deer is the presence
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2004/12/12-07-04tdc/12-07-04dscihealth-column-04.asp

Bovids, Cervids, & Pronghorn: Pere David’s Deer. Musk Deer. Muntjac. Southern Pudu. Chinese Water Deer. Family
http://itech.pjc.edu/jkaplan/zootech/Course%20Materials/mamlec18.htm