The mouse deer cheats the eagle

Great instincts and ingenuity help mouse deer escape the eagle's claws.

Deer rats are ruminants belonging to the Tragulidae group. They are deer-like and distributed in tropical forests of Southeast Asia, India and Central Africa. Despite the name of the mouse deer, they do not have relatives with deer. Their maximum height (from shoulder to toe) is about 66 cm.

In the above video, although the eagle is smaller than the mouse deer, the bird is still able to kill the prey. Immediately after discovering predators, mouse deer rushed down the stream. Eagles know that deer cannot hold long breaths in the water so they park on a tree branch and wait.

But the bird couldn't expect it to meet a clever prey. After crawling on the bottom of the stream for about 4 minutes, the deer reappeared in a closed spot along the stream to breathe air. He gently stuck his nose over the water so the eagle could not see. After sticking his nose up to breathe for the second time, deer rats quietly crawled to a stream and escaped.