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Chevrotain

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They also kind of sound like a middle of the pack car brand

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    • Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My chevrotain has about 10,000 miles on it, which doesn’t sound like much until you realize it’s only 4 inches tall, but it’s reliable and gets me where I want to go, which is home, because I don’t want to be around people.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably more etymologically so as you might expect.

      You’re probably thinking of Chevrolet, which is derived from chevreuil, french for a deer.

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    • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You joke, but in Malaysia, they do have a car named after the local word for mouse deers, kancil (the “c” is pronounced as a “ch”). I learned to drive in one of those.looks like this

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  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t believe this was real. Looked it up. Here’s a cool video. Don’t worry, the chevrotain wins this one.

    youtu.be/A4ovD1z-7LQ

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    • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are even cuter in motion.

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow. The chevrotain is much larger than I imagined it. I love how elegant it moves through the forest and the water. Is it me, or does its tail almost look flat like a beavers? And they use it to help guide themselves under water?

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  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Telugu name for the Indian spotted chevrotain is jarini pandi, which literally means “a deer and a pig”.
    In Kannada, it is called barka (ಬರ್ಕ)
    in Malayalam, it is called കൂരമാൻ kūramān
    the Konkani name for it is barinka.
    The Tamil term is சருகு மான் sarukumāṉ “leaf-pile deer”.
    The Sinhala name meeminna roughly translates to “mouse-like deer”. This was used in the scientific name of the Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain, M. meminna.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am almost 40 years old yet each year I learn of a new animal that makes me go “what the fuck is that”

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  • essell@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey, that is how I draw a dog. What are you saying?

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