Idaho Falls Zoo welcomes baby Reeves’s muntjac

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The newest resident of the Idaho Falls Zoo looks like a typical baby deer, but it barks like a dog and has fangs like a vampire.

The 2-pound fawn is a Reeves’s muntjac, a small deer native to China and Taiwan. The Post Register newspaper reports that the fawn is now on display along its mother as part of the eastern Idaho zoo’s “Little Asia” exhibit.

Aaron Young, a zookeeper who cares for the muntjacs, said in a prepared statement that it’s the cutest baby he’s seen.

The Idaho Falls Zoo is also opening a new exhibit with three rare snake species: a Thai bamboo rat snake, a Mandarin rat snake and two albino Burmese pythons. The “Jewels of Asia” exhibit will stay open through Labor Day.