Tibetan red deer
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The Tibetan red deer (Cervus canadensis wallichi) also known as shou, is a subspecies of elk/wapiti native to the southern Tibetan highlands and Bhutan. Once believed to be near-extinct, its population has increased to over 8,300, the majority of which live in a 120,000-hectare nature reserve established in 1993 in Riwoqê County, Qamdo Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[1] Some have been kept at the beginning of the 20th century in London, and in a small zoo south of Lhasa.
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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 |
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Subspecies: | C. c. wallichi |
Trinomial name | |
Cervus canadensis wallichi (G. Cuvier, 1823) | |
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