First-time mother Brienne gave birth to the lesser Malayan mouse deer at England's Bristol Zoo Garden almost a month ago Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A tiny deer-like animal has been born at a zoo in the U.K. – and it's so small, it resembles a mouse. In fact, the animal is called a mouse deer and it is about 8 inches tall, around the size of a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The lesser mouse-deer is native to parts of southeast Asia and is the ...

Mouse deer are primitive, forest ungulates found in Asia and Africa. Both the lesser mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus) and the Philippine mouse deer (T. nigricans) are managed in European zoos, but ...