Originally published at: Meet the Chinese "vampire" deer | Boing Boing
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But… they don’t hop?
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If you’re in the Northeast Ohio area, the Akron zoo has a Siberian musk deer exhibit (it’s related to the water deer and also has fangs). They’re pretty neat to see in person.
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I had always just assumed that humans could detect pheromones, but it appears the science on this is far from settled:
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Please tell me that’s not one of the places where they’ve found coronavirus in deer…
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Whether or not the scents of fellow humans meet the technical definition of pheromones might be a distinction without a difference based on what effects have already been proven. From your article:
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I have a casting of a muntjac skull, which is similar. I was very confused when I first saw it. “A deer…with fangs?”
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If one of these animals were to be hunted down and a keepsake trophy made of its taxidermied head, in consideration of fairness, I wonder if a different system of counting need be employed for what hunters refer to as “points.”
I dunno, I’m gonna go with mixed blessing there. 
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Especially for those moms who need to birth babies with one of the largest skull-to-body-size ratios in the animal kingdom, combined with the pelvis that’s narrow enough to facilitate bipedal locomotion.
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As someone with a ridiculously over sensitive nose, I say this with authority: yes, it is, and no, you don’t want to.
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I now expect these to show up in some Disney animation, with funny voices due to the tusks.
The dik-dik’s tiny horns are cute. Imps! 
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Defend the Dik-Diks!
(I see a custom tee shirt in my future.)
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I guess this is officially a dik-dik pic thread now…
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Beside the fact that it looks menacing, it is unclear as to why evolution chose fangs over antlers for the musk deer.
God be like: “Let’s try something different here…”
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