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Dama pontica is an extinct species of fallow deer that inhabited the Crimean Peninsula during the Early Pleistocene. [1] References This page was last edited on 15 ...
The European fallow deer (Dama dama), also known as the common fallow deer or simply fallow deer, is a species of deer native to Eurasia. It is historically native to Turkey and possibly the Italian Peninsula , Balkan Peninsula , and the island of Rhodes near Anatolia .
Cervus (Dama) mesopotamicus was described by Victor Brooke in 1875 for a deer that was shot at the Karun river in Iran. [3]Its taxonomic status is disputed. It has traditionally been considered to be a subspecies of the fallow deer from western Europe, Dama dama [4] (as Dama dama mesopotamica), but is also treated as a distinct species by some authors.
The name fallow is derived from the deer's pale brown colour.The Latin word dāma or damma, used for roe deer, gazelles, and antelopes, lies at the root of the modern scientific name, as well as the German Damhirsch, French daim, Dutch damhert, and Italian daino.
Middle Pleistocene landscape with Dama celiae and other megafauna, including straight-tusked elephant, narrow-nosed rhinoceros, bison, aurochs and wild horse. Dama celiae is known from two sites in Spain, Pedro Jaro I and Orcasitas, which date back to MIS 9 (~300,000 years ago).
Dama Dam Mast Qalandar (transl. Every Breath for the Ecstasy of Qalandar) [1] is a spiritual Sufi qawwali written in the honour of the most revered Sufi saint of Sindh, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177–1274) of Sehwan Sharif. The origins of the poem is unknown, since no recordings or written documents exist mentioning it prior to the 1950s.
Kalapodi (Greek: Καλαπόδι) is a village in the Lokroi municipality, Phthiotis, Central Greece. [2] Lokroi straddles the pass leading over the low mountains between the Bay of Atalantis in the Gulf of Euboea to the plains of Boeotia north of Lake Copais.
Dama, a name for Turkish draughts; Dama, stage name of Rasolofondraosolo Zafimahaleo, founding member of the Madagascar folk-pop band Mahaleo; Dama , a fictional character in Chapterhouse Dune (1985) by Frank Herbert; Dama-fruit, a fictional fruit in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, which renders its eaters invisible; D.A.M.A, a Portuguese band