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This negative impact on native animal species has led the IUCN to identify the elk as one of the world's 100 worst invaders. [94] The introduction of deer to New Zealand began in the middle of the 19th century, and current populations are primarily European red deer, with only 15 percent being elk. [95]
The Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus), [1] [2] also called the giant deer or Irish deer, is an extinct species of deer in the genus Megaloceros and is one of the largest deer that ever lived. Its range extended across Eurasia during the Pleistocene , from Ireland (where it is known from abundant remains found in bogs) to Lake Baikal in Siberia .
One species, Père David's deer, is extinct in the wild, and one, Schomburgk's deer, went extinct in 1938. The fifty-five species of Cervidae are split into nineteen genera within two subfamilies : Capreolinae (New World deer) and Cervinae (Old World deer).
The Capreolinae includes caribou deer (reindeer), whitetail deer, roe deer, and moose. As such, they are two different species within the same subfamily: whitetail deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ...
The Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), also known commonly as the Olympic elk and Roosevelt's wapiti, is the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk (Cervus canadensis) in North America by body mass. [2] Mature bulls weigh from 700 to 1,200 lb (320 to 540 kg). with very rare large bulls weighing more. [3]
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).
The comparably sized Irish elk, which had the largest antlers of any deer was formerly also native to Britain, until becoming regionally extinct some 12,000 years ago. [ 4 ] Native
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