A Wisdom Archive on Deer

Capreolinae Cervinae Hydropotinae Muntiacinae A deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. A number of broadly similar animals, from related families within the order Artiodactyla, are often also called deer. Depending on the species, male deer are called stags, harts, bucks or bulls, and females are called hinds, does or cows. Young deer are called calves or fawns (not to be confused with fauns, a kind ... Including:

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In Origin of Species (1859) Charles Darwin wrote "Although I do not know of any thoroughly well-authenticated cases of perfectly fertile hybrid animals, I have some reason to believe that the hybrids from Cervulus vaginalis and Reevesii [...] are perfectly fertile." These two varieties of muntjac are currently considered the same species. A number of deer hybrids are bred to improve meat yield in farmed deer. Once considered separate species because of the great differences between them, American Elk (or Wapiti) and Red Deer fr ...

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Meat is animal tissue (mainly muscle) used as food. The common definition of meat is dependent on culture. Many Americans would exclude organ meat, fish, and other seafood from their definition of meat. Originally, the word meat meant simply "food." It is also used as a vulgar way to refer to the human body (see meat market). For the most part, meat for human consumption comes from domesticated animals bred specifically for th ... Including:

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The fallow deer was a native of most of Europe during the last Interglacial. In the Holocene, the distribution was restricted to the Mediterranean area, Turkey and parts of North Africa, while western Asia was the home of a close relative, the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica), that is bigger and sports bigger antlers. In the Levant, fallow deer was an important source of meat in the Palaeolithic Kebaran-culture (17.000-10.000 BC), as is shown by animal bones from sites in northern Israel, but the numbers decreased in the following epi-Palaeolithic Natufian culture (10.000-8.500 BC), perhaps because of increased ar ...

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In 1953 Dr. David I. Macht of Johns Hopkins, conducted toxicity tests on many different kinds of animals and fish, and concluded that the toxicity of Levitically "unclean" animals was higher than that of the "clean" animals, and that the correlation with the description in Leviticus was 100%. [1] Dr. Macht used a toxicology test cited in the peer reviewed literature that Dr. Macht reported was particularly good for zoological toxins which of course is relevant for testing kosher and non kosher meat/fish/poultry. In addition, Dr. Macht had re ...

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In some countries, game is classified, including legal classification with respect to licenses required, as either small game or large game. Small game includeds small animals and birds, such as rabbits, pheasants or ducks. A single small game license may cover all small game species and be subject to daily and yearly bag limits. Large game includes animals like deer and elk and are often subject to individual licensing where a separate license is required for each individual animal taken. Big game is a term sometimes us ...

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The current ongoing extinction event seems more outstanding if we follow tradition and separate the recent extinction (approx. since the industrial revolution) from the extinction near the end of the last ice age. In popular imagination the latter is exemplified by the extinction of the woolly mammoth and, incorrectly, the Neanderthal people. However, it is worth remembering that modern climatology suggests the Holocene epoch we live in is no more than the latest in a series of interglacial intervals between glaciation events, one tha ...

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Crops Deccan grass Foxtail and Chinese millet Wheat Buckwheat Beans Wild plants Kitopiro, a wild garlic grass Animals Bear Salmon Seals Whales Deer Raccoon dogs Much of the legend of their hunting prowess has been handed down to the current generat ...

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