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Since it is only about the size of a gun dog, the Muntjac is the smallest deer we have in Ireland. The genus is native to south Asia and there are about a dozen species. The word 'muntjac' is believed to be a variation of the Javanese 'mindjangan', the name of the species found on that Indonesian island.

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Although common in the British countryside, a recent viral video has shed new light on the seemingly bizarre adaptations of the muntjac deer; facial glands that can open so wide, they can actually turn inside out. As the smallest species of deer in the UK, around the height of a small to medium-sized dog, muntjac have two sets of scent glands on their face that grow and swell, like balloons filling with air.

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