Pig deer
Latin name: Axis Porcinus
Chinese local name: Reed punt-pole deer
English local name: Hog Deer
With content different name: Dodur, maculatus, oryzus, pumilio, annamiticus. . . .

Classification
The door: Chordate door (Chordata)
Key link: Lactation key link (Mammalia)
Eye: Occasionally hoof looks (Artiodactyla)
Division: Lu Ke (Cervidae)
Subfamily: Lu Yake (Cervinae)
Belong to: Spot deer is belonged to (Axis) (should belong to in all 4 kinds)

1, appearance feature
Bodily form is brawny, limb is smallish, hip blunt circle and inferior, look suddenly very like the pig, friend name " pig deer " . Height 100, 115 centimeters, shoulder height 60, 70 centimeters, weight makes an appointment with 50 kilogram. Connect body ecru, back be mingled with is shallow brown Mao Jian, abdomen shows gray. When the summer, two side have back irregular hoar stain. Hart grows the trident part that has slightness, but whole horn relatively water deer is short much. Female pig deer does not have horn. The pig deer of our country (A. P. Annamiticus) bodily form is bigger, spot of summerly wool body is not quite apparent. Xia Maozong yellow, brown or wintry Mao Jian is flaxen.

After having complete the socket of eye; Have the gland below the socket of eye, can secrete the liquid that has special sweet smell, daub is in truncal on in order to label feudal; Between hoof, hind sufficient etc place have scent bag; Did not come to age, have smallish molar; The stomach has 4 rooms, regurgitation; Without gallbladder; Hair is shorter; Around limb has 2 each the metacarpal in the root and in Zhi bone cicatrizations, form character of prepare Chinese medicine by roasting it in a panbig gun; Sufficient have 4 foot, the 2nd degrade with the 5th foot or only sign; Hoof growth is good, without crural mat, contact the ground continuously.

2, distributinging limits
Pig deer is mixed in foreign koel, Burmese, Thailand, Nepalese, Pakistan, Bangladesh in south peninsula and other places, divide melt into in all 2 subspecies, our country is only imprint a subspecies, discover at 1959-1960 year, distributinging Yu Yunna western the Geng Ma of border land of the remote in standing by, on the west alliance the Na Ding river of two counties is coastal.
3, surroundings
Main dwell reachs his at the river river two sides of altitude 500-800m the long grass having Hao around (bulrush) marsh wet ground. Enter further from bank country forest activity rarely. See forest of Yu Liu ground rarely.

4, life characteristics
Pig deer likes independent activity, now and then 3 two gather, but do not build up swarm. By day, they hide into woods brushwood in, arrived to just come out to forage towards evening. Pig deer annual but copulatory breed, this kind of instinct is helpful for expanding kind group. Pig deer leg is short, like when the action low person first, so movement not as good as like sika nimble.

Be good at passing through already fill brushwood, also can hop obstacle. The gender is fond of alone dwell, reside nocturnal travel alone more, general and independent activity, now and then 2-3 is together only, but never form swarm. But mix in oestrus season collect feed a place constant compositive temporarily subgroup, every groups of number differ to more than 10 only.
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