ENVIRONMENT|natural environment|wildlife · SCIENCE|natural and applied sciences|life sciences
- taimin Reference Faomhadh an téarma seo mar chuid de Thionscadal Lex
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- Eld’s deer | brow-antlered deer | thamin
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- Definition large, reddish-brown, elegant, long-headed member of the Cervidae family, native to South-East Asia and classified as endangered (see graphics) Reference COM-EN, based on:- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/4265/0 - "A guide to the mammals of China" by Andrew T. Smith and Yan Xie, Princeton University Press 2008, p. 466, http://books.google.com/books?id=ka-9f68nPT4C&pg=PA466&dq=%22eld's+deer%22&hl=en&ei=91RuTJKJIYffOOGX2bAL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22eld's%20deer%22&f=false - Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eld's_Deer [20.8.2010]
- Comment Has light spots along median dorsum and characteristic male antlers in which the front brow tine joins the main beam at an obtuse angle to form a sweeping continuous curve. Distribution: Native to Cambodia, China, India, Laos and Myanmar. Possibly extinct in Thailand and Vietnam. Classified as "endangered" in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, as the rates of decline averaged across the species have exceeded 50% in three generations (presumed to be at least 15 years).
- cerf d'Eld | cerf-lyre
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