Leaf muntjac

The leaf muntjac, also called the leaf deer or Putao muntjac, Muntiacus putaoensis, is a small muntjac documented in 1997 by the biologist Alan Rabinowitz during field work in Nogmung Township in Myanmar. He found the species by examining the small carcass of a deer that he first took for a juvenile of another species but that proved to be an adult female. Local hunters called it the leaf deer because a single large leaf could wrap its body. An adult stands about 50 centimetres at the shoulder and weighs under 11 kilograms, with unbranched antlers about 2.5 centimetres high, and both sexes have pronounced canine tusks. It lives in dense mountain forest at 450 to 600 metres in Myanmar and has also been reported in India.