[Latin formal name] : Elaphurus Davidianus
[local name] : David's deer
[English name] : Pere David's Deer
[national emphasis protects animal level] : One class
[world nature protects alliance (IUCN) ] : Be in severe danger
[especially gutty] : Yes
[endangered grade] : Feral and extinct
[be in severe danger convention of international trade of the species that use plant (CITES) ] : Did not include
[zoology environment] : Low-lying wet ground and marsh
[the element that send danger] : The habitat is destroyed, excessive catch hunt
[home distributings] : Beijing, jiangsu (introduce artificially)
[classify a position] :
Bound: Animal bound Animalia
The door: Chordate door Chordata
Key link: Lactation key link Mammalia
Eye: Occasionally hoof eye Artiodactyla
Division: Lu Ke Cervidae
Subfamily: Lu Yake Cervinae
Belong to: Elk belongs to Elaphurus, milne-Edwards, 1866
Plant: Elk E. Davidianus 　
The history develops
Elk is our country's peculiar world rare animal. Elk past once was wild animal. His be apt to swims, plus wide 4 hoof, suit to be in very much muddy Shu Linzhao lustre the food such as green grass of region look for, leaf and hydrophyte, perch territory is taken in today's the Huanghe valley. The Huanghe valley is the ground that the mankind multiplies, haunt hereat elk nature became people to be obtain food and wantonly the object of hunt, the amount that causes this one rare animal decreases quickly, its are feral kind group very fast not answer existed. Those who be worth to rejoice is, it is early when the 3000 many week day year ago, elk is arrested to enclosed ground for growing trees into royal hunt, domesticating artificially multiply of ground of generation of the generation below condition comes down, arrive all the time Qing Kangxi, Qianlong year, the Nanhai that is in Beijing child there still are more than 200 inside royal hunt center. This is last groups of elk of the life in the artificial environment on Chinese earth. Conclude according to data of a large number of fossil and history, feral elk is close to the condition that eradicate in Qing Chaocai probably.
1865, french missionary holds nature science concurrently to learn Catholic father of Davy of · of domestic A awn to make an on-the-spot investigation in Beijing south this kind of peculiar animal discovered when using a plant, this is common people first time knew elk from academic angle. A few years of after this, the live system that has elk ceaselessly is carried give China, flow direction west. Right now the elk inside a few country zoos of European, as a result of the change of zoology environment, be faced with extinct menace. Have deep love for move duke of Ford of heart of floral England shellfish 11 worlds, give high price raise 18 elk inside zoo of and other places of grand of Paris, Berlin, division, Antwerp to be bought entirely, put in a suitable place to breed the Wu Bangsi in his aquatic luxuriant is manorial inside. Put in a suitable place to breed via nursing meticulously after, these 18 elk multiply gradually haunt.
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