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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 .
Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer (family Cervidae) containing three species native to the Americas. [1] [3] [4] The name is sometimes spelled odocoeleus; it is from a contraction of the roots odonto-and coelus meaning "hollow-tooth".
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Family: Cervidae: Genus: † Metacervocerus Dietrich, 1938: Species [1] †Metacervocerus pardinensis Croizet and Jobert, 1828 †Metacervocerus philisi Mennecart et al., 2017 †Metacervocerus punjabiensis Brown, 1926 †Metacervocerus rhenanus Dubois, 1904 †Metacervocerus shansius Teilhard de Chardin and Trassaert, 1937 Synonyms [1 ...
The screw worm is a fly larva that enters an open wound of a live animal and eats the flesh of the animal from within, leading to a gruesome death. The female fly mates once in her life, so the infestation can be battled by introducing sterile male flies to the population, causing the females to die out without laying fertile eggs.
Pecorans share characteristics with other artiodactyls, including a four-chambered stomach, and a paraxonic foot, meaning that it supports weight on the third and fourth digits. Several characteristics distinguish Pecora from its sister taxon, Tragulina : an astragalus with parallel sides, a loss of the trapezium , and differences in parts of ...
Cervavitus probably evolved in forested areas of Eastern Europe and then disperse during the Miocene to Western Europe and East Asia, taking advantage of the moist forests of Eurasia at the time, but the progressive aridity of parts of Asia and Europe since the Pliocene and the beginning of the Pleistocene, as a result of changes like the elevation of the Himalayas, forced these deer to take ...
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