Must credit: Whipsnade Zoo. Four three-week-old ‘vampire’ deer who measured just 12cm at birth are being hand-reared by zookeepers at the UK’s largest conservation zoo – protecting an important population of the vulnerable species. Known as vampire deer due to their set of sharp ‘fangs’, the tiny Chinese water deer weighed just over 400g when they were born – the same as a can of soft drink – and are being cared for by zookeepers around the clock to protect them from passing predators…
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