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Père David's deer, the Glossary

The Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), also known as the milu or elaphure, is a species of deer native to the subtropical river valleys of China.^[1]

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Cervines
Extant Piacenzian first appearances
Mammals described in 1866

Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist.

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Antler

Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family.

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Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).

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Armand David

Armand David, CM (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Berlin Zoo

The Berlin Zoological Garden (Zoologischer Garten Berlin) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany.

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Bi Gan

Prince Bi Gan (Bǐgān) was a prominent Chinese figure during the Shang dynasty.

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The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or the Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing".

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China proper

China proper, also called Inner China are terms used primarily in the West in reference to the traditional "core" regions of China centered in the southeast.

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Critically Endangered

An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Dafeng Milu Nature Reserve

Dafeng Milu Nature Reserve is located in Dafeng, Jiangsu Province and near the Yellow Sea coast in eastern China, with the whole area 78000 ha, the core area 2668 ha, the buffer area 2220, and the experimental area 73112.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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Deer park (England)

In medieval and Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland, a deer park was an enclosed area containing deer.

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Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.

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Elaphurus

Elaphurus is a genus of deer. Père David's deer and Elaphurus are Cervines.

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Eld's deer

Eld's deer (Rucervus eldii or Panolia eldiiPitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves (2004). Evolution and phylogeny of old world deer. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 880–895.), also known as the thamin or brow-antlered deer, is an endangered species of deer endemic to South and Southeast Asia. Père David's deer and Eld's deer are Cervines.

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Emperor of China

Throughout Chinese history, "Emperor" was the superlative title held by the monarchs who ruled various imperial dynasties or Chinese empires.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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Genetics (journal)

Genetics is a monthly scientific journal publishing investigations bearing on heredity, genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Gerald Durrell

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Gestation

Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).

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Grazing

In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.

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Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford

Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (21 December 1888 – 9 October 1953) was a British peer.

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Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford

Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, (19 February 1858 – 27 August 1940) was an English politician and peer.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Hunan

Hunan is an inland province of China.

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Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford

John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (24 May 1917 – 25 October 2002), styled Lord Howland until 1940, and styled Marquess of Tavistock from 1940 until 1953, was a writer and a British peer.

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Investiture of the Gods

The Investiture of the Gods, also known by its Chinese names and is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Jiang Ziya

Jiang Ziya (century BC – century BC), also known by several other names, was a Chinese military general, monarch, strategist, and writer who helped kings Wen and Wu of Zhou overthrow the Shang in ancient China.

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Jiangsu

Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Journal of Heredity

The Journal of Heredity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal concerned with heredity in a biological sense, covering all aspects of genetics.

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King Zhou of Shang

King Zhou was the pejorative posthumous name given to Di Xin of Shang or King Shou of Shang, the last king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China.

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Kunlun (mythology)

The Kunlun or Kunlun Shan is a mountain or mountain range in Chinese mythology, an important symbol representing the axis mundi and divinity.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.

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Liao River

The Liao River is the principal river in southern Northeast China, and one of the seven main river systems in China.

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List of endangered and protected species of China

The endangered species of China may include any wildlife species designated for protection by the national government of China or listed as endangered by international organizations such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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Local extinction

Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Milu Yuan

The Milu Park, or Milu Yuan, is a large public park located in southern Beijing, China named after its captive breeding herd of milu or Père David's deer.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

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People's Daily

The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Piacenzian

The Piacenzian is in the international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene.

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Population bottleneck

A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts; or human activities such as genocide, speciocide, widespread violence or intentional culling.

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Preorbital gland

The preorbital gland is a paired exocrine gland found in many species of artiodactyls, which is homologous to the lacrimal gland found in humans.

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Reindeer

The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. Père David's deer and reindeer are mammals of Asia.

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Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford

(Henry) Robin Ian Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford (21 January 1940 – 13 June 2003) was a British peer, stockbroker and animal conservationist.

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Roe deer

The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer. Père David's deer and roe deer are mammals of Asia.

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Rut (mammalian reproduction)

The rut (from the Latin rugire, meaning "to roar") is the mating season of certain mammals, which includes ruminants such as deer, sheep, camels, goats, pronghorns, bison, giraffes and antelopes, and extends to others such as skunks and elephants.

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Semiaquatic

In biology, being semi-aquatic refers to various macroorganisms that live regularly in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.

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Shaanxi

Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China.

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Shishou

Shishou is a county-level city under the administration of the prefectural-level city Jingzhou, in the south of Hubei province, near its border with Hunan province, and is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

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Species reintroduction

Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas where the organism is capable of survival.

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Subgenus

In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.

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Subtropics

The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.

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Tiger

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.

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Tongzhi Emperor

The Tongzhi Emperor (27 April 1856 – 12 January 1875), also known by his temple name Emperor Muzong of Qing, personal name Zaichun, was the ninth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the eighth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign, which effectively lasted through his adolescence, was largely overshadowed by the rule of Empress Dowager Cixi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Père_David's_deer

Also known as Cervus davidianus, Elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus, Pere David Deer, Père Davids Deer, Sibuxiang.

, People's Daily, Piacenzian, Population bottleneck, Preorbital gland, Reindeer, Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, Roe deer, Rut (mammalian reproduction), Semiaquatic, Shaanxi, Shishou, Species reintroduction, Subgenus, Subtropics, Tiger, Tongzhi Emperor, Whipsnade Zoo, Woburn Abbey, Woburn Safari Park, World Wide Fund for Nature, Yangtze, Yellow River, Yongding River, Yuanshi Tianzun, Zhejiang, Zhou dynasty.

Père David's deer, the Glossary

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See also

Cervines

Extant Piacenzian first appearances

Mammals described in 1866

References