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In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world. Their names are given as Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór. An ...
The name translates as "the dormant one" or "the one slumbering" (akin to the Danish and Norwegian "dvale" and Swedish "dvala", meaning "sleep", "unconscious condition" or "hibernation"). Dvalinn is listed as one of the four stags of Yggdrasill in both Grímnismál from the Poetic Edda and Gylfaginning from the Prose Edda .
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The larger species had proportionally longer legs than mainland deer, while the dwarf species had proportionally shorter legs. [12] The large size of the only known individual of C. major may be due to pituitary gigantism , in which case the species may be a synonym of one of the smaller species, perhaps the red deer sized C. dorothensis , [ 13 ...
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Cervus astylodon, the Ryukyu dwarf deer, is an extinct species of dwarf deer that was endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa, Ishigaki, Kume and Tokunoshima. [1] It lived throughout the Pleistocene , becoming extinct towards the end of the Late Pleistocene , following the arrival of humans to the Ryukyu Islands.
Cervus is a genus of deer that primarily are native to Eurasia, although one species occurs in northern Africa and another in North America.In addition to the species presently placed in this genus, it has included a whole range of other species now commonly placed in other genera.