DESCRIPTION: A very large, reddish grey musk deer, the Alpine can be distinguished from the Himalayan Musk Deer in having white stockinged legs, and a broad ill-defined creamy throat and chest extending to a reddish cream underside. The rump is paler than the back, but the buttock is darker. It has a long grey face and the eyes have a pale eye ring, faintly orangish in colour. The ears are brown, with a yellowish tip and grey inside. Individual hairs of the back are long and brown with a red–yellow subterminal band.
BEHAVIOUR: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine zones across the Central and Eastern Himalayas,
mainly in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, and west to Uttarakhand.
HABITAT: Alpine scrub and meadows and the ‘dwarf bush zone’ of the trans-
Himalayas.
Size: 50–90 cm,
Weight: 11–18 kg
IUCN Status: Endangered
BEHAVIOUR: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine zones across the Central and Eastern Himalayas,
mainly in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, and west to Uttarakhand.
HABITAT: Alpine scrub and meadows and the ‘dwarf bush zone’ of the trans-
Himalayas.
Size: 50–90 cm,
Weight: 11–18 kg
IUCN Status: Endangered
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