bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · Sep 9 The Java mouse-deer is neither a mouse nor a deer, though it resembles both. About the size of a hare, the mouse-deer carries its big ears, pointed snout, and relatively rotund body atop pencil-thin legs.
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The smallest ungulate in the world, the Java mouse-deer is more closely related to hippopotamuses and pigs than to either of its namesakes. The only thing the name really gets right is its origin: the Indonesian island of Java.