Anonymous Coward User ID: 61764168 United States 11/06/2014 01:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Rare Deer With Vampire Teeth Spotted For First Time In 60 Years An endangered deer with vampirelike fangs was spotted for the first time in nearly 60 years, in a remote forest in northeastern Afghanistan. The fanged creature is known as the Kashmir musk deer, and it's native to the Himalayas of northern India, Pakistan's Kashmir region and northern Afghanistan. Only the male deer have fangs, and they use them during mating season to compete for females. A team of researchers scoured Afghanistan's Nuristan province during 2008 and 2009, and recorded five sightings of the animal. This was the first time the species had been spotted since 1948. The sightings were described in this month's edition of the journal Oryx. During the survey, the researchers spotted a single male Kashmir musk deer near the same area three separate times. The researchers also recorded one female and her baby, and saw a second single female that they think may have been the same deer, without her baby. The researchers also found the carcass of a poached female deer [ link to www.foxnews.com] Cool |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 55468887 United States 11/06/2014 01:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rare Deer With Vampire Teeth Spotted For First Time In 60 Years Wow this is a lot better than wasting my time looking at 10 turtles you've never seen before. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 42979464 United States 11/06/2014 01:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rare Deer With Vampire Teeth Spotted For First Time In 60 Years kool
5 stars. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 61764168 United States 11/06/2014 01:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rare Deer With Vampire Teeth Spotted For First Time In 60 Years kool
5 stars.
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User ID: 39491380 United States 11/06/2014 01:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rare Deer With Vampire Teeth Spotted For First Time In 60 Years The Chinese water deer also has tusks instead of antlers. Chinese Water Deer [ link to www.chinesewaterdeer.com] The British Deer Society - Chinese Water Deer [ link to www.bds.org.uk] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 63765960 United States 11/06/2014 05:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rare Deer With Vampire Teeth Spotted For First Time In 60 Years adult chimpanzees have some pretty big fangs,
the reason humans don't have fangs is called neoteny or Paedomorphism. It is due to prolonged sexual development, or slowed sexual development in a organism. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 50486882 United States 11/06/2014 06:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rare Deer With Vampire Teeth Spotted For First Time In 60 Years Amazing link, thanks for the info |