One of the 12 deer on WAnimals
Mammals · Artiodactyla · Cervidae
Hog Deer
Axis porcinus
Endangered
At very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future.
The hog deer owes its name to the way it runs: instead of bounding like other deer, it lowers its head and pushes through the tall grass head down, like a wild boar. It is compact, short-legged and higher at the rump than at the shoulder. It depends entirely on the tall grasslands of the alluvial plains of northern India, Nepal and Pakistan, a habitat that farming has reduced to the smallest of fragments. Its decline has been so rapid that it went from Least Concern to Endangered within a few years.
Weight
30 kg – 110 kg
Size
1 m – 1.4 m
Life expectancy
20 years
