Red Deer

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

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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.

Related Topics:
North America - Deer

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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.

Related Topics:
Eastern elk - Merriam's elk

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