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Originally Posted by Prince Charon
My guess (after finding out that there are over a dozen species of muntjac deer, most of them in East and Southeast Asia) is that you encountered a pair of Reeves's muntjacs, a deer small enough to be seriously threatened by a large house-cat.
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Yeah, the Reeves is the species that's become established in Britain. A housecat would have to be feeling confident to take one on, but I assume that the urban foxes round here get a fair amount of venison (and save the gardens from being stripped bare).
Most Muntjacs are small, though apparently there's one oversized species in Asia. Anyhow, the mothers definitely have a threat display and ignore size differentials when using it.