VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

HOG DEER

• Hog deer (Axis porcinus) are small in size and are sighted in the low alluvial grass plains of north India from Sind and Punjab to Assam.
• These animals place the head in low condition and moves without the usual bouncing action that is characteristic to a deer and hence, it has been given the name of hog deer.
• These animals are hardly 60 cms at the shoulder.