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Greater Indo-Malayan Chevrotain
Tragulus napu
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Tragulidae
- Genus
- Tragulus
- IUCN status
- LC
- Distribution
- Myanmar|Thailand|Cambodia?|Laos?|Malaysia|Singapore|Indonesia|Brunei
- Realm
- Indomalaya
About this species
- Habitat
- Subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, mangrove thickets; near water
- Range
- Sumatra, Borneo, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and southern Myanmar
The greater mouse-deer, also called the greater Malay chevrotain or napu, is an even-toed ungulate in the chevrotain family (Tragulidae). It is found in Sumatra, Borneo and smaller Malaysian and Indonesian islands, and in southern Myanmar, southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest (Wikipedia, general species account).
It lives near water, in tropical forests and mangrove thickets (Wikipedia, general species account).
Description: Wildlife of Malaysia guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)