Key facts
- Origin
- Scotland
- Height
- Males
- Weight
- Males
- Coat
- wiry
- Colour
- blue-grey, grey, brindle, yellow, sandy-red or red fawns with black points; white on chest, toes and tip of tail is permissible
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dog breed
- Country of origin
- Scotland
- Mass
- 36.5
- Image
- Grupp 10, SKOTSK HJORTHUND, SEJV-12 SE UCH Necesse’s Ars Amandi (23664806293).jpg
- Height
- 71
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- Commons category
- Deerhound
- Commons gallery
- Deerhound
- catalog code
- 164
- exact match
- wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/102094776-n
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Encyclopedic overview
Dog (domestic dog)
The Scottish Deerhound, or simply the Deerhound, is a breed of large sighthound, once bred to hunt the red deer by coursing. In outward appearance it is similar to the Greyhound, but larger and more heavily boned, with a rough coat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scottish Deerhound” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.