Believe me this is a deer.Musk Deer. Rare animal around the Himalayan.

in photography •  7 years ago  (edited)

This is a rare and really different deer of its kind only found on Himalyan
(Mountain region ).
This photograph was taken in Nepal .
Please do support this beautiful creature :)
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Musk Deer. Rare animal around the Himalayan.
Nepal wildlife & Birds photography by Pratap Gurung.

Inner skull structure

Additional Pic from google


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Interesting. I have never seen this animal before.

yup truly different one . Love to follow you .

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Very interesting indeed. I almost suspected a photoshop. But they seem to really exist haha. Some more info:

"Musk deer can refer to any one, or all seven, of the species that make up Moschus, the only extant genus of the family Moschidae.[1] The musk deer family differs from cervids, or true deer, by lacking antlers and facial glands and by possessing only a single pair of teats, a gallbladder, a caudal gland, a pair of tusk-like teeth and—of particular economic importance to humans—a musk gland.

Musk deer live mainly in forested and alpine scrub habitats in the mountains of southern Asia, notably the Himalayas. Moschids, the proper term when referring to this type of deer rather than one/multiple species of musk deer, are entirely Asian in their present distribution, being extinct in Europe where the earliest musk deer are known to have existed from Oligocene deposits." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_deer)

Really loved your information . Love to follow you. :)