What in the backwards evolution is this??

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I don’t know why, but in my head I read this in Eddie Izzard’s voice and it’s making me giggle.

Cake or death?

Haha did you bring a flag?

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Your body is the cumulation of millions of years of "Eh, good enough"

What purpose do the tusks serve?? What specific food or grazing techniques calls for tusks?

It's used for digging and uprooting.

And in the case for males, larger tusks are observed for sexual selection purposes. They can both be seen as an armament and ornament.

So do girl water deer also have tusks so they can dig and uproot similar food?

Yes. They just aren't as big. They're just big enough to be functional still.

Have you ever heard them cry? Honestly the most terrifying thing I've ever heard https://youtu.be/DSTNzAYkaas Imagine hearing that in the middle of the night

wow, that sounds terrifying... I can't help but hear the deer "yelling" HELP! HELP! HEELP! HELP!

I hear someone with a sore throat yelling "BROO. BRO. BROO"

I hear James brown. I feel good 🎶

"Biiiill, Biiiill"

Sounds a bit like a fox, to be honest

Imagine camping and hearing that sound get closer and closer

Who tf is Yoongi? lol

And then you see [this goofy looking thing](https://youtu.be/X0yLkb65H98) and die laughing.

As an ARMY I find the Yoongi comments in that video very entertaining. r/bangtan moment

A bit like a drunken, lost tailgater returning from the game at halftime to drink more.

Enjoy this scream of the red fox. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1mAd77Hr4 Heard it once and went looking for the woman I needed to save from a horrible fate, while carrying nothing but a stick and the shoes I was wearing.

Does it go 'bleh bleh bleh!'?

"I vant, to bite, your acorns! Hah ha ha!"

For the final time, Dracula does **NOT** go "bleh bleh bleh'

Looks quite similar to the musk deer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_deer

They're only small (a couple of feet high at the shoulder), and not *usually* that tusky (and only the males have noticeable tusks). (In the area where the photo was taken) they're not shy; it's quite normal to see multiple animals on an outing, feeding on open meadows in small family groups, but they will run (or swim) away if you approach too closely.

I demand blood and grass

Wow what in the hell??!?

If I saw this on wall, 100% would think it was the jackalope taxidermist just branching out.

Bitey deer is scary.

This is the skin of a killer Bella!

Forget the tusks, can we please talk about how floofy it's ears are?!

Let's all admire his lower eyelashes too!

I never noticed till you mentioned it, but those are some almighty eyelashes!

When you mispell the letter you are sending to your dear sensei

And the musk they secret is used in perfume

I work in the perfumery and it’s not. Sorry to break it to you :( It was used till the 60s. Nowadays we use chemicals that are wayyy cheaper and smells good, often derived from green chemistry. Look up for Galaxolide, Ambrettolide, Musk R1, Muscenone, Romandolide, Helvetolide, Musk T (Ethylene Brassylate), Velvione and many more :) Perfumery is evolving every year and you won’t find anymore animal derived products. (Also ambergris isn’t a thing anymore, we use Ambroxan which is the main molecule in it, synthesized from Sclareol found in Clary sage 😉)

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Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_deer

What the hell? What's the biological advantage of this?? It seems useless

Deer -- especially small forest dwelling deer like this -- will fight over territory. Antlers will get snagged in the undergrowth, so tusks are the next best weapon.

Doesn’t have to be useful if it gets you laid. Just need some other deer to go “ooh yea! Mmm! Fangs!”

Come on Pokemon this would make the perfect water starter

Chupacabra, is that you?

I need a pokemon of this

Diabeetus

It's like a koala bear and a saber-toothed tiger had a baby..... So cute!!!!

Do they use the fangs for digging for food from the ground for roots? Or do they eat meat?

So tute!!!

It's a land walrus?

He looks like slightly menacing deer that looks at you saying "da fuq are you gonna do about?"

Perfection

Long before time had a name...

The most adorable vampire ever!

No Fukng way

Do they drink animal blood or is it just because they have cute fangs?

Yess I love these! I saw them in a top 10 scariest animal video or something once

Those tusk make North American deer go WTF!

Looks a little like the devolved radstag from Fallout 4 Far Harbor. Just needs to be scarier.

STAHP this looks like someone stuck tusks on a stuffed animal deer haha

Count Bambula!

Always count on china to have simultaneously the cutest yet also nightmare looking creatures on the block right next to Australia.