The cute, little mouse, known as the deer mouse has the dubious distinction of being the carrier of a deadly variety of Hanta Virus, which causes severe pneumonia-like symptoms. This disease was first ...

The mouse deer, otherwise known as the javan chevrotain, was born at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire this week to parents Gus and Gwen. The tiny fawn is one of the smallest hoofed animals in the world ...

The range is transcontinental, and from Alaska to southern Mexico, except for the southeastern U.S. In the Adirondacks the deer mouse is wide spread, occurring in all terrestrial habitats at all ...

One of the smallest hoofed animals in the world has been born at a zoo in the UK. Ecstatic staff at Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, shared cute snaps of the rare Javan chevrotain mouse deer - which weighed in ...

Claim to fame: There are no studies to prove it, but because of its reproductive capacity, the deer mouse is probably one of the most abundant native wild mammals in Missouri. Another mouse, the house ...

Feeding animals may seem helpful, but it can be fatal It’s cute until it isn’t. A marmot waddles up to you, stands up on his hind legs and sniffs around. That’s cute. A mountain goat stares at you ...

Well, technically it is a type of deer – but not like you’ve ever seen one before. Chester Zoo has become the first in Britain to house the rare Philippine mouse deer. Thu, 28 Aug, 2014 - 01:00 It ...

There’s new life hopping and tiptoeing through the green enclosures of Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam. Two tiny additions, a red-necked wallaby joey and a newborn mouse deer, are ...

Silver-backed chevrotains, also known as mouse-deer, were thought to be an extinct species. But scientists have found evidence the animals are still alive, after images of the animal were caught on ...