Indian hog deer
axis porcinus latin

Indian Hog Deer (Hyelaphus porcinus)

Indian hog deer have preorbital glands on the face just below the eyes and metatarsal glands located high on the side of the rear legs.

The Indian Hog Deer's coat is quite thick and generally a uniform dark-brown in winter except for the underparts of the body and legs which are lighter in colour.

Traditionally there have been two classified subspecies of hog deer: Indian hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus porcinus) and the Indochinese hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus annamiticus).

Hog deer (Axis porcinus)

Lahan Sai means plain fertile width Hog Deers (Axis porcinus).

Hog deer (Axis porcinus): Hog deer has a much wider distribution than Chital and covers the area throughout the alluvial grassland of northern India, extending eastward to southern Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, and Srilanka (Prater 1998).