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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 .
Five cervid species (clockwise from top left): the red deer (Cervus elaphus), sika deer (Cervus nippon), barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Cervidae is a family of hoofed ruminant mammals in the order Artiodactyla. A member of this family is called a deer or a cervid.
Within the red deer species group, some sources have recommended the Central Asian red deer (Cervus hanglu) should be treated as a species. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] If the Central Asian red deer (from the Caspian Sea to western China ) is recognized as a species, it includes the Yarkand deer and Bactrian deer (the two may be synonymous ), but it could ...
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 moose).
A hart is a male red deer, synonymous with stag and used in contrast to the female hind; its use may now be considered mostly poetic or archaic. The word comes from Middle English hert, from Old English heorot; compare Frisian hart, Dutch hert, German Hirsch, and Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish hjort, all meaning "deer".
However, other baby deer species are commonly called fawns, making it even more interesting that baby reindeer do not have the same classification. 5. Reindeer Have the Largest Antlers of Any Deer
This deer is slightly smaller than other Western European red deer, an example of insular dwarfism. In summer, the coat is lighter in colour with a distinct border to the lighter patch on the rump. The rest of the colour is dark reddish brown with a greyer face and neck. The legs are blackish brown. In winter the animal grows long hair on the neck.
The L-E wasn’t able to identify a deer farm in Alabama where a red stag recently escaped. “There are legally-held captive red deer in Alabama,” Gauldin said in an email.