Mar 24, 2011

The Adorable Water Deer

No, I didn't mess up and post this on the wrong blog. The water deer, Hydropotes inermis, is quite deserving of a place here. It lives in China and Korea, in swampy regions and grasslands, where it follows a normal, deerish vegetarian lifestyle.

It also has three inch fangs.

Unfortunately for your nightmares, that is not a Photoshop, just a picture of a healthy male deer. Those giant teeth are used during mating season, when male deer fight each other for females' affections.

Now, try and imagine what Bambi would have been like with one of these starring.

Not trusting deer anymore,
tkrausse

Pictures courtesy of Wikipedia and Cracked.com (NSFW/18+)
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5 comments:

  1. LeeeMarch 24, 2011

    Beautiful bait and switch.

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  2. Raging WombatMarch 24, 2011

    Fanged deer. I don't know what to say.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 24, 2011

    I used to raise Munt Jac deer. Those males also have fangs, only they're about two inches long. My daughter also has a 4 inch scar on her thigh from one of them. Normally they're pretty docile though.

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  4. Nature is AwesomeMarch 26, 2011

    the fanged deer is pure awesome

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  5. AnonymousMarch 30, 2011

    See this : http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/25/a-saber-toothed-herb.html

    Looks like saber-toothed herbivores have evolved before.

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