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This species of deer was first made known to Western science in 1866 by Armand David (Père David), a French missionary working in China. He obtained some hides and the carcasses of an adult male, an adult female and a young male, and sent them to Paris, where the species was named "Père David's deer" by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, a French biologist.
This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 120 mammal species occurring in Metropolitan France.One of them is critically endangered, two are endangered, thirteen are vulnerable, and four are near threatened.
A deer or a doe (female deer) usually appears in fairy tales [2] as the form of a princess who has been enchanted by a malevolent fairy or witch, [3] such as The White Doe (French fairy tale) and The Enchanted Deer (Scottish fairy tale), [4] or a transformation curse a male character falls under. Sometimes, it represents a disguise a prince ...
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).
Antler comes from the Old French antoillier (see present French : "Andouiller", from ant-, meaning before, oeil, meaning eye and-ier, a suffix indicating an action or state of being) [3] [4] possibly from some form of an unattested Latin word *anteocularis, "before the eye" [5] (and applied to the word for "branch" or "horn" [4]).
Deer by Water (French - Le Cerf à l'eau) or The Cornered Deer (Le Cerf forcé) is an 1861 oil on canvas painting.It shows a deer pursued by a pack of hounds. It was exhibited at the 1861 Paris Salon [1] and bought for the city of Marseille four years later, since when it has hung in the musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille.
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A male Corsican red deer. The Corsican red deer is smaller than most of the 16 subspecies of the red deer; it has shorter legs (possibly to better scramble up mountain sides) and a longer tail. [2] The antlers are also simplified and shorter, typically less than 80 cm (31 in) in length. The coat is brownish. Life expectancy is 13–14 years.