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Moschus moschiferus (Siberian musk deer)

Synonyms: Moschus sibiricus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus) is a musk deer found in the mountain forests of Northeast Asia. It is most common in the taiga of southern Siberia, but is also found in parts of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria and the Korean peninsula. Their small shape allows them to hide from predators through tiny openings in the rocky terrain and also allow them to run exceptionally fast from their predators. Although bearing fangs, the Siberian musk deers are actually herbivores with their main source of nutrients, lichens.
View Wikipedia Record: Moschus moschiferus

Infraspecies

Moschus moschiferus arcticus
Moschus moschiferus moschiferus (musk deer)
Moschus moschiferus parvipes
Moschus moschiferus sachalinensis
Moschus moschiferus turowi

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Moschus moschiferus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
51
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.41
EDGE Score: 4.05
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  22.046 lbs (10.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  1.012 lbs (459 g)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 3 months
Gestation [1]  5 months 12 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  14 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  37 inches (95 cm)
Weaning [1]  3 months 16 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Emblem of

Himachal Pradesh
Uttarakhand

Predators

Cuon alpinus (Dhole)[4]
Martes zibellina (Sable)[5]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Cuon alpinus, James A. Cohen, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 100, pp. 1-3 (1978)
♦ 5Martes zibellina (Carnivora: Mustelidae), VLADIMIR G. MONAKHOV, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(876):75–86 (2011)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0