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The
hog deer (
Axis porcinus) is small
deer whose habitat ranges from
Pakistan, through northern
India, to mainland
southeast Asia. There are two subspecies of hog deer:
Axis p. porcinus which inhabits much of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of
Pakistan, Northern
India,
Nepal, Southwestern
Yunnan Province in China, all the way to Western
Thailand.
Axis p. annamaticus that inhabits
Thailand, and
Indochina. Introduced populations also exist in
Australia, the
United States and
Sri Lanka. The hog deer gets its name from the
hog-like manner in which it runs through the forests with its head hung low so that it can duck under obstacles instead of leaping over them like most other deer. Cover is taken as soon as it's feasible. During flight, the tail is held erect, showing the white underside. Hog deer are gregarious only when conditions are favorable and don't form a "unit" at these times, fleeing in different directions rather than in a herd. When alarmed, hog deer make a whistling vocalization or a warning bark. Home ranges vary widely in size, but average about 0.70 km². Males are aggressive, and may become territorial at low population densities, marking the boundaries with glandular secretions. During the rut, males gather in open meadows, pawing the ground during antagonistic encounters. Harems are not created, with males courting and defending a single female at any given time. Unlike many other deer species, hog deer don't have a rutting call. Population densities may be as low as 0.1 animals per square kilometer in riverine valleys, rising to over 19 individuals per square kilometer in grassy flood plains.
Varieties
There are two small, separate but similar island hog deer species: The
Bawean deer (
Axis kuhlii) of
Bawean Island in
Indonesia, and the
Calamian deer (
Axis calamianensis) of the
Calamian Group of Islands in the
Philippines that inhabit moist or dry tropical deciduous forest environments. Unlike the hog deer (
Axis porcinus) of the Asian mainland, their fawns are not spotted at birth. These island hog deer may be remnants of a widespread population of hog deer that at one time were connected to the hog deer populations of mainland
Southeast Asia and inhabited vast areas of the
Sunda Shelf during times of lower ocean levels.
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