Photo by Heush (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nConfusing Your Predators – The Tufted Deer Edition<\/h2>\n
Even though the Tufted Deer has tusks that would make a Wooly Mammoth envious (okay, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration) they still need to worry about predators. The two main animals they need to be cautious of are Leopards and of course, humans. When threatened, the Tufted Deer will act much like the White-Tailed Deer as they too use their tail to confuse potential predators. How, you ask? Well, the underside of the tail is white while the top portion is brown. As the deer is bolting away from danger they will flap their tail up and down. Typically the alternating pattern of white and brown confuses the hungry attacker just long enough for our deer to get out of harms way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did You Know? The Tufted Deer has a vampire-esque look due to the incredibly large canines, which stick out of their mouth like fangs This deer species gets their common name from the small, brown or black tuft of hair on their forehead (I am sure all of the balding deer are envious) The Tufted Deer can typically be found throughout regions of China and historic reports showed a population in Myanmar, however, we have yet to find a current population (but that doesn’t mean they are not still there) The Fanged Deer It isn’t too often you come across <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,3449,2996,2459,4025,3448,2463],"yoast_head":"\n
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