A small deer whose males have short antlers and long upper canine teeth.
Males have short antlers and long upper canine teeth. The coat is chestnut, and the tail is black above and white below.
The British range of Reeves’s muntjac was mapped from national surveys carried out in 2007, 2011 and 2016. Records were plotted in 10-kilometre grid squares to show whether the deer had been recorded in each area. Comparing those maps over time revealed where the edge of its range moved between 2002 and 2016.
Spread was not equally fast throughout the period: the estimated annual range-expansion rate peaked near 12% in 2002–2005 and later declined. The paper also reports that the British population appeared to have tripled since 1995. Range area and population size are different measures, and together they describe two aspects of the muntjac’s establishment.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In Great Britain, surveys from 2002 to 2016 recorded an expanding range, with annual expansion near 12% in 2002–2005. Continued local monitoring and management are relevant where the introduced deer affects woodland conservation.