Java mouse-deer

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Java mouse-deer (plural Java mouse-deers or Java mouse-deer)

  1. One of the species Tragulus javanicus of the smallest of the even-toed ungulates.
    Synonym: plandok
    • 2024 March 2, Rachel Aspden, “Blooming marvellous: A love letter to a vast and vanishing flower”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47, column 4:
      Birds and animals barely get a mention except as pollinators or antagonists (step forward Sunda porcupines and Java mouse-deer, which cause much botanist heartbreak by gnawing on Rafflesia blooms).

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