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Chinese water deer

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noun

  1. a small Chinese or Korean deer, Hydropotes inermis, having tusks and no antlers: introduced into England and France

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Three other Asiatic species - sika, Chinese water deer and muntjac - all arrived in the late 19th Century.

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He said it helped control numbers of the deer, including muntjac and Chinese water deer, which he said were at an "all-time high".

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As further evidence of a single origin for bony headgear, Chinese water deer and two species of musk deer, both of which lack antlers, have a mutation in one of the genes linked to bone formation.

From Science Magazine

Sika deer, Muntjac deer and Chinese Water deer were introduced more recently.

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The others - muntjac, sika and Chinese water deer - were introduced in the past 150 years.

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