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Wait... Is that Cat? WTF
 
< That is my boy:)
My adopted son, my sister gave birth.
(His parents have major issues, Dad is in UK,
So, all this time I thought that you were Nick when in fact you are female and his step-mum (sort of).

I could be wrong here but isn't an avatar in some way meant to reflect who the poster is?
 
Fanged Deer Spotted in Afghanistan
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photo credit: The unusual fangs of a musk deer are used by males during the breeding season. A population of Kashmir musk deer were found living in Afghanistan. This photo is of a similar species, the Siberian musk deer /

Some 60 years after its last sighting in Afghanistan, the mysterious fanged deer makes a reappearance along the country’s steep, forested slopes. A recent survey has confirmed five sightings.
The Kashmir musk deer, Moschus cupreus, is one of seven Moschidae species found in Asia. Their vampiric fangs aren’t used to aid bloodsucking, nor do they deliver venom like vipers. Rather, these tusks are used by males during breeding (or rutting) season to compete with other males and impress the ladies.

The species is listed on the IUCN Red List as endangered, mostly due to habitat loss and poachers. They’re a perennial favorite of wildlife traffickers: By weight, their scent glands are more valuable than gold, fetching as much as $45,000 per kilogram on the international black market. Their musk -- the brown, waxy secretions from glands near a male’s rear end -- have been used in cosmetics, fragrances, and traditional medicine for centuries. While the musk can be extracted from the animal alive, "musk-gatherers" often kill them to remove the entire sac. A single pod yields only about 25 grams of the substance. The last scientific sighting in Afghanistan was made by a Danish survey team in 1948.



Sounds like a hoax but it's not. More info here..
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fanged-deer-back-afghanistan
 
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