Calamian deer

The Calamian deer, Axis calamianensis, also called the Calamian hog deer, is an endangered deer found only in the Calamian Islands of Palawan province in the Philippines. It is one of the three deer native to the Philippines, with the Philippine sambar and the Visayan spotted deer. It is called a hog deer because when fleeing it dashes through underbrush with its head down like a hog instead of jumping over barriers. The animals are crepuscular, resting during the warmer part of the day and foraging at sunrise and twilight, and they are mainly solitary. They are ruminants with four stomach chambers, and their diet consists of shoots, twigs and leaves. Males stand 60 to 65 centimetres at the shoulder and have three-tined antlers. Fossils have been found in Ille Cave on Palawan.