In Primorye, for the first time, a water deer was discovered

The water deer was first spotted in the seaside national park "Land of the Leopard", according to the organization's website. The animal was "caught" by camera traps installed in the Khasansky district.

According to the scientist, such deer are similar to roe deer, but instead of horns, the males have long tusks, like musk deer.

It is assumed that the settlement of the water deer to the north occurred naturally. This species has permanently settled in the lower reaches of the Tumannaya River at the junction of the borders of North Korea, China and Russia.

"According to the interviewed border guards, an unusual deer, which they called" swamp musk deer", began to be noted in the south of the Khasansky district in 2015, but no one assumed that this was a water deer, a completely new type of ungulate for Russia, "said Viktor Storozhuk, a senior research engineer at the Land of the Leopard Federal State Budgetary Institution.

According to the director of the Land of the Leopard, Viktor Bardyuk, it is possible that the distribution of these ungulates to the north is influenced by climate changes.