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A chevrotain is found in Balabac.

The chevrotains (Tragulidae), now surviving only in West and Central Africa and tropical Asia, are conversely a purely Old World group.

Junker, by whom it was mistaken for a large water-chevrotain or zebra-antelope, states that to the natives of the Nepo district the okapi is known as the makape.

The third group is that represented by the chevrotains or mouse-deer, forming the family Tragulidae, with Tragulus in south-eastern Asia and Dorcatherium (or Hyomoschus) Tragullna.

The chevrotains of India and the Malay countries are unrepresented.

Deer are likewise numerous, and the peculiar group of chevrotains (Tragulus) is characteristic of the Indian region.

), in type is rather larger than any of the Asiatic chevrotains, which it otherwise much resembles, but is said to frequent the banks of streams, and have much the habits of pigs.

porcinus), the barking deer or muntjac (Cervulus muntjac), and the chevrotain or mouse deer (Tragulus meminna).

Synonyms:

Tragulus Javanicus, family Tragulidae, kanchil, water deer, Tragulus kanchil, napu, mouse deer, water chevrotain, Tragulidae, ruminant, Hyemoschus aquaticus,

Antonyms:

odd-toed ungulate,