Water deer(Hydropotes inermis) at zoo

[dt644]

You might be interested in this review, if you have not already seen it:

https://www.researchgate.net/profil...view-on-the-water-deer-Hydropotes-inermis.pdf

A study on the lack of morphological differences between the subspecies can be found here:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jvms/77/11/77_15-0037/_pdf

And a study on lack of genetic difference between both subspecies, but rather the existence of sympatric genetically somewhat distinct groups:
Two Sympatric Phylogroups of the Chinese Water Deer ( Hydropotes inermis ) Identified by Mitochondrial DNA Control Region and Cytochrome b Gene Analyses

Oh thanks! I'll read that slowly.

 

[Anniella]

no longer on their zoo map.

I remember L.A. had them listed at the beginning of the decade next to the sarus cranes and (at the time) the construction area for Elephants of Asia, but I never saw them.