Through further research it is also discovered that the creatures who were initially believed to be nocturnal actually conduct their activities during the day. As discovered by Kusuda, the first being that though many births occur in May, November or December, the females are able to reproduce throughout the year (Kusuda et al).
==FolktaleFolklore==
In an [[Indonesia]]n and [[Malaysia]]n folklore, the mouse-deer [[Sang Kancil]] is a cunning [[trickster]] similar to [[Br'er Rabbit]] from the [[Uncle Remus]] tales, even sharing some story plots,. likeFor wheninstance, they both trick enemies pretending to be dead or inanimate,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Backus |first1=Emma M. |title=Folk-Tales from Georgia |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |date=1900 |volume=13 |issue=48 |pages=19–32 |doi=10.2307/533730 |jstor=533730 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Jon C. Stott|title=A Book of Tricksters: Tales from Many Lands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8bhVp7TiEoC&pg=PA38|date=21 September 2010|publisher=Heritage House Publishing Co|isbn=978-1-926613-69-7|page=38}}</ref> orand both lose a race to slower opponents.<ref name="Zahari">{{cite book|author=Rahimidin Zahari|title=Sang Kancil and the snail |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQRmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|publisher=ITBM|isbn=978-967-460-035-8|page=49}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.mythfolklore.net/3043mythfolklore/reading/remus/pages/10.htm |title = Uncle Remus (Myth-Folklore Online)}}</ref>
