Muntjac Deer Have Bizarre Flaring Scent Glands On Their Face
2023年1月11日 · Muntjac deer scent glands look alien, but they're just a weird-looking way to better communicate through smell. Image credit: MoMorad, iStock. A viral video on TikTok shows the bizarrely...
Everything You Want To Know About Muntjac Deer Face Scent Glands
2023年10月27日 · Muntjac deer have both frontal and preorbital glands. In fact, they are the only deer species to possess frontal glands. If you look at their faces, you’ll notice a “V” shape on their foreheads – these are the frontal glands, which are a “pair of slits on the face in line with the antler pedicles,” as per this study .
Muntjac - Wikipedia
Muntjacs possess various scent glands that have crucial functions in communication and territorial marking. They use their facial glands primarily to mark the ground and occasionally other individuals, and the glands are opened during defecation and urination, as well as sometimes during social displays.
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Growing and swelling like balloons filling with air, these peculiar features are actually scent glands. And there are two sets on the muntjac’s face: the preorbital scent glands, which are …
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They also have two large glands located just in front of the eyes, called the pre-orbital glands. Muntjac frequently lick these with their long tongues, presumably in order to help them …
Understanding the Unique Muntjac Deer Face - A Place for Animals
2024年6月15日 · Unlike larger deer species, the muntjac deer has distinctive facial glands, including frontal glands and pre-orbital glands. These glands play a crucial role in their communication and scent marking behaviors.
Muntjacs (Cervidae; Muntiacinae) are very primitive members of the deer family, which nevertheless possess the largest pre-orbital fossa and sac of any cervid (Geist, 1998).
Musculature of facial scent glands in the muntjac. - PMC
The muscles associated with the very large preorbital glands of muntjacs (Muntiacus) are described. Although the two muntjac fawns examined were only 10 days old, their muscles were proportionately larger than those in adult specimens of North American cervids.
Muntjac - Cambridge Hunting
Muntjac have two pairs of large glands on the face. The upper pair are the frontal glands, whilst the lower glands, below the eyes, are called sub-orbitals. Both glands are used to mark territories and boundaries. They have a ginger forehead with pronounced black lines running up the pedicles in bucks, and a dark diamond shape on does.
Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) by Murray Thomas - Wild Deer
2019年9月11日 · Muntjac, have two pairs of large glands on the face. The upper pair is the frontal glands, whilst the lower glands, below the eyes, are called sub-orbitals. Both glands are used to scent-mark territories and boundaries.