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Cervidae Family
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Cervidae Family
General Information
- Antlers
- Only males have antlers
- Caribou is the only species with both maleand female antlers
- Antlers used for hunting and male to male fightfor mate
- Old antlers shed off, new ones grow out in thespring
- Size
- 20 lbs-1800 lbs
- Males 25% larger than females
- Moose largest extant member of the family(1800lbs)
- Northern pudu smallest in family (20lbs)
- 3 Subgroups
- Capriolinae
- Deer
- Moose
- Cervinae
- Elk
- Muntjacs
- Hydropotinae
- Chinese Water Deer
- Apperence
- Young
- Dark or light brown
- Have white spots to help protect frompredators
- Adult
- Tail short
- Snout long
- Compact torsos
- Powerful legs for woody and rocky ground
- Lack upper incisors (teeth for cutting), insteadhave hard plate
- Diet
- Herbivores (eats plants)
- Grazers (eats mostly grass)
- Browsers (eats leaves, twigs, shoots)
- 4 stomach chambers
- Store chewed food then comes back up tochew again
- allows to process foodwith low nutrition
Threats
- 55 Species
- 2 extinct
- 1 critically endangered
- 8 endangered
- 16 vulnerable
- 17 least concern
- 10 data deficient
- Reasons
- Too much hunting
- For sport
- Lost of Habitat
- Agriculture, land development
- Climate
- Deer decline causing predators decline
- Predators have no food to hunt for
Conservation
- Learn about the wildlife around your area
- The habitats of deer
- Secure garbage and recycables
- Keep in containers with lids
- Deer or other animals can get into it
- Won't fly away in the wind
- Reduce use of herbicides and pesticides
- Deer can be posioned
- Predators can be affected as well
- Slow down when driving
- Reduce road kill
- Helps deer stay alive
- Don't buy products made from endangeredspecies for the sake of decoration
- Deer head
- Antlers
- Protect its habitat
Role
- Positive Effects
- Humans hunt for food, clothing, otherresources
- Host to flat worms, roundworms, ticks, lice,flies
- Important food source for others
- Grey wolves
- Negative Effects
- Carry diseases that can be passed ontoanimals and plants
- Crop pest (browsers)
Current Status
- Ecosystems
- Range from cold to tropical whether
- Frozen tundra of north Canada and Greenland
- Rainforest of India
- (largest number of deer species in the world)
- Boreal
- Alpine
- Known to live in urban or suburban places
- Small forest with paths
- Life Span
- 11-12 years but many are killed before 5
- Males shorter life than female
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Animals
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Subphylum
- Vertebrata
- Has backbone
- Class
- Mammalia
- Mammals
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Even-toed ungulates
