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Thorold's deer
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species of mammal
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Thorold’s deer, also known as the white-lipped deer, is a species of mammal classified under the genus Cervus. Its scientific name is Cervus albirostris. The animal is endemic to China and inhabits savanna and forest environments. It exhibits a crepuscular diel cycle and has a gestation period of 270 days.
The IUCN Red List assessed the species as Vulnerable in 2015. The taxon is recognized by several common names, including Thorold’s Deer, White-lipped Deer, and Weißlippenhirsch.
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Species
VulnerableWhite-lipped Deer
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- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
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- Cervus albirostris
- taxon name
- Cervus albirostris
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- Cervus albirostris
- taxon common name
- 白唇鹿
- gestation period
- 270
- diel cycle
- crepuscular
- habitat
- forest
- endemic to
- China
- short name
- C. albirostris
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Encyclopedic overview
Thorold's deer (Cervus albirostris) is a threatened species of deer found in the grassland, shrubland, and forest habitats, at high altitudes, of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, as well as some fragmented areas further north in central Western China. It is also known as the white-lipped deer (or baichunlu, 白唇鹿, in Simplified Chinese, ཤྭ་བ་མཆུ་དཀར།་ in Standard Tibetan) for the white fur around its snout.
Thorold's deer is one of the larger ungulate mammals within its range, and fills an ecological niche similar to the Tibetan red deer (or shou, the subspecies Cervus elaphus wallichi of the red deer species group). It was first scientifically described by Nikolay Przhevalsky in 1883. As of early 2011, more than 100 of the deer are kept globally in Species360-registered zoos, and, in 1998, it was estimated that about 7,000 remained in the wild.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thorold's deer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.