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In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac , elk (wapiti), red deer , and fallow deer ) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer , roe deer , and ...
Deer Happy Tree Friends: A purple male deer who wears face makeup and a navy blue or dark purple and white, striped shirt. He never speaks, because he is a mime, causing others to have a hard time understanding him. Miniroba Donkey Tokyo Marble Chocolate: Miss Deer Teacher Deer Kiff: Montgomery: Moose The Get Along Gang: The leader of the Get ...
A deer or a doe (female deer) usually appears in fairy tales [2] as the form of a princess who has been enchanted by a malevolent fairy or witch, [3] such as The White Doe (French fairy tale) and The Enchanted Deer (Scottish fairy tale), [4] or a transformation curse a male character falls under. Sometimes, it represents a disguise a prince ...
Fallow deer is the common name for species of deer in the genus Dama of subfamily Cervinae. [3] There are two living species, the European fallow deer (Dama dama), native to Europe and Anatolia, and the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesapotamica), native to the Middle East. The European species has been widely introduced elsewhere.
Pudua was a Latinized version of the name proposed by Alfred Henry Garrod in 1877, but was ruled invalid. Pudus are classified in the New World deer subfamily Capreolinae within the deer family Cervidae. The term "pudú" itself is derived from the language of the Mapuche people of the Los Lagos Region of south-central Chile. [6]
This list of fictional ungulates is a subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. The list is restricted to notable ungulate (hooved) characters from various works organized by medium. This paraphyletic list includes all fictional hooved characters except fictional horses , fictional pachyderms (elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, and ...
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 ...