Red Deer

:This article is about the animal; for other uses of the name, see Red deer (disambiguation).

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Numerous - see text.

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Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), known as elk or wapiti in North America, are the second largest species of deer in the world.

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Cervus elaphus has twenty subspecies in Europe, including some on the endangered species list:

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• Bactrian deer (C. e. bactrianus),
• Barbary deer (C. e. barbarus),
• Corsican red deer (C. e. corsicanus),
• Asiatic hangul or Kashmir deer (C. e. hanglu),
• Isyubra deer/Manchurian red deer/Izubr stag (C. e. xanthopygos),
• Szechuan red deer or McNeill's red deer (C. e. macneilli),
• Shou (C. e. affims) and
• Yarkand deer (C. e. yarkandanseis).
• Alshansk or Ala-Shan red deer (C. e. alshanicus),
• Altai red deer (C. e. asiaticus or sibiricus),
• Balkan red deer (C. e. hippelaphus),
• Kansu red deer (C. e. kansuensis),
• Maral (C. e. sibiricus),
• Norwegian red deer (C. e. atlanticus),
• Scottish red deer (C. e. scoticus),
• Shingielt red deer (C. e. wachei),
• Spanish red deer (C. e. hispanicus),
• Swedish red deer (C. e. elaphus),
• Tien-Shan red deer (C. e. songaricus), and
• Wallich's deer (C. e. Wallichii).

Four of six subspecies of elk in North America survive, with an estimated population of about ten million:

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• Rocky Mountain elk or Yellowstone elk (C. e. nelsoni),
• Manitoba elk (C. e. manatobensis),
• Roosevelt elk or Olympic elk (C. e. roosevelti), and
• Tule elk (C. e. nannodes) still survive.

The Eastern elk (C. e. canadensis) and the Merriam's elk (C. e. merriami) are considered extinct.

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Red Deer: In Europe ►



 

North America: North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean. It covers an area of 9,355,000 square miles (24,230,000 square kilometers). In 2...

Eastern elk: The Eastern elk (Cervus canadensis canadiensis) is one of six subspecies of elk that inhabited northern and eastern United States, and southern Canada. The last Eastern Elk was shot in Pennsylvania on September 1, 1877. The subspecies was declared as extinct by the USFWS in 1880. Another subspec...

Merriam's elk: The Merriam's Elk (Cervus canadensis merriami) is an extinct subspecies of elk once found in the arid lands of southwestern United States. Since the arrival of the Europeans uncontrolled hunting and cattle grazing had driven the subspecies into extinction over a century ago, with the exact presumed ...




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