Common name: Red Deer
Scientific name: Cervus elaphus 歐洲馬鹿、紅鹿、赤鹿、八叉鹿
Genus: Cervus 鹿屬
Family: Cervidae 鹿科, even-toed ungulates family
Order: Artiodactyla 偶蹄目
Remarks: It is listed as least concern by the IUCN. Under The Deer Act of 1991. this species cannot be shot during the 'Close Season' from 1st May to 31st July inclusive (stag 公鹿) or 1st April to 31st October inclusive (hind 雌鹿), or any time at night from an hour after sunset until an hour before sunrise.
Status: native
Date: 11th Oct
[071] Deer with creamy-yellow rump 臀部 with short, reddish-brown, unmarked tail. (vs white rump patches at least partly outlined with black in Cervus nippon 梅花鹿, 日本鹿, Sika and Dama dama 黇鹿, Fallow Deer.)
The head is long, with a tapered muzzle 口鼻部, 吻部. (vs shorter, blunter muzzle in Capreolus capreolus, 西方狍, 歐洲狍, European Roe Deer.)
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