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Eld's deer (Rucervus eldii or Panolia eldii [4]), also known as the thamin or brow-antlered deer, is an Endangered species of deer endemic to South and Southeast Asia. [2] It inhabits wetlands and marshlands. It is active during the day and mates from October to the end of December. Three subspecies are recognised.
The sangai (Meitei pronunciation: /sə.ŋai/ [1]) (Rucervus eldii eldii) is an endemic and endangered subspecies of Eld's deer found only in Manipur, India. It is also the state animal of Manipur. [2] Its common English name is Manipur brow-antlered deer or Eld's deer. [3]
It was re–discovered in the Keibul Lamjao Park area by the environmentalist and photographer E.P. Gee, which necessitated declaring this reserve park area as a national park to protect and conserve the deer now called Eld's deer's subspecies brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi) or Sangai in Meitei language (to distinguish it from the other ...
A member of this family is called a deer or a cervid. They are widespread throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes . Cervids range in size from the 60 cm (24 in) long and 32 cm (13 in) tall pudú to the 3.4 m (11.2 ft) long and 3.4 m (11.2 ft) tall moose .
Rucervus is a genus of deer from India, Nepal, Indochina, and the Chinese island of Hainan.The only extant representatives, the barasingha or swamp deer (R. duvaucelii) and Eld's deer (R. eldii), are threatened by habitat loss and hunting; another species, Schomburgk’s deer (R. schomburgki), went extinct in 1938. [1]
Skull of a red deer. The red deer is the fourth-largest extant deer species, behind the moose, elk, and sambar deer.It is a ruminant, eating its food in two stages and having an even number of toes on each hoof, like camels, goats, and cattle.
The deer may use their front legs to press down on saplings until they snap or become low enough to the ground so they can reach the leaves. Forced to stand on their hind legs due to their small size, the deer climb branches and tree stumps to reach higher foliage. [ 16 ]
Wildlife in Cambodia includes dholes, elephants, deer (sambar, Eld's deer, hog deer and muntjac), wild oxen (banteng and gaur), panthers, bears, and tigers. Cormorants, cranes, ibises, parrots, green peafowl, pheasants, and wild ducks are also found, and species of venomous snakes and constrictors are numerous.