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Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus) is a species of deer known only in captivity. It prefers marshland, and is believed to be native to the subtropics. It grazes on a mixture of grass and water plants.
Adults weigh 150-200 kg (330-440 pounds). They have a nine-month gestation period, and one or two fawns are born at a time. They reach maturity at about 14 months, and have been known to reach the age of 23 years.
Père David's deer has a long tail, wide hooves, and branched antlers. The Chinese name 四不象 translates as "four unlikes," because the animals were seen as having the horns of a stag, the neck of a camel, the foot of a cow, and the tail of an ass. Adults have summer coats that are bright red with a dark dorsal stripe, and dark gray winter coats. The fawns are spotted.
These animals were first made known to Western science in the 19th century, by Father Armand David, a French missionary working in ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute. At the time, the only surviving herd was in a preserve belonging to the Chinese emperor. The last herd of Père David's deers that remained in China were eaten by Western and Japanese troops that were present at the time of the Boxer RebellionThe Boxer Rebellion ( simplified: traditional: , Pinyin: Yihetuan Qyi) was an uprising against Western commercial and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century. By August 1900, over 230 foreigners, thousands of Chinese Christ.
After Father David publicized their existence, a few animals were given to European countries, and bred there. After the remaining population in China died out, the remaining deers in Europe were gathered to EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England to be bred for the preservation of the species. The current population stems from this herd.
These deer are now found in zoos around the world, and a herd of Père David's deer was reintroducedReintroduction is the deliberate release of animals from captivity into the wild. It usually involves species that are endangered or extinct in the wild. In some cases, reintroduction involves a species that had been wiped out in a particular ecosystem, b to Dafeng Reserve , China in the late 1980s. They are classified as "critically endangeredAn endangered species is a species whose population is so small that it is in danger of becoming extinct. Many countries have laws offering special protection to these species (forbidding hunting, banning their habitats from development, etc. to prevent t" in the wild, but do not appear to have suffered from a genetic bottleneck because of small population size.
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