Tibetan red deer
Tibetan red deer | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Subfamily: | Cervinae |
Genus: | Cervus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | C. c. wallichi
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Trinomial name | |
Cervus canadensis wallichi (G. Cuvier, 1823)
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Synonyms | |
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The Tibetan red deer (Cervus canadensis wallichi) also known as shou, is a subspecies of
Some have been kept at the beginning of the 20th century in London, and in a small zoo south of Lhasa.Description
The Tibetan red deer is relatively massive built with short legs and a large, square muzzle. The winter fur is light sandy-brown, except the grayish face. The summer coat is slate-gray. The large, white rump patch, which includes the short tail, has no dark rim as it is seen in the Sichuan deer, for example. Those from the eastern part of the range have a dark dorsal line and represent probably the C. c. affinis type, which is now usually included in the shou.[2]
Relationships and range
Tibetan red deer, along with Sichuan deer and Kansu red deer, forms the southern group of wapiti.[3] It lives in northern Bhutan and southern Tibet, where it is recorded from the
They are preyed on by the Himalayan wolf.[5]
References
- ^ "Tibet sees growth in wildlife population". Xinhua News Agency. 2015-12-31. Archived from the original on January 1, 2019.
- ^ ISBN 0-8117-0496-3
- PMID 15120401. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ^ George B. Schaller, Wulin Liua and Xiaoming Wang: Status of Tibet red deer. Oryx (1996), 30:269-274. online
- ISSN 0952-8369. Retrieved 29 March 2022.