Kashmir stag (Cervus hanglu hanglu)

Query: Cervidae

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Subject:	Kashmir stag (Cervus hanglu hanglu)
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Kashmir stag (Cervus hanglu hanglu)

Lithograph of a hangul (Cervus hanglu ssp. hanglu) by Charles Hamilton Smith.
Date 1898
Source The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct
Author Charles Hamilton Smith
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

The Kashmir stag (Cervus hanglu hanglu), also called hangul, is a subspecies of Central Asian red deer endemic to Kashmir and surrounding areas. It is found in dense riverine forests in the high valleys and mountains of Jammu and Kashmir and northern Himachal Pradesh. These deer once numbered from about 5,000 animals in the beginning of the 20th century. Unfortunately, they were threatened, due to habitat destruction, over-grazing by domestic livestock, and poaching. This dwindled to as low as 150 animals by 1970.

Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Cervinae
Genus: Cervus
Species: C. hanglu
Subspecies: Cervus hanglu hanglu Wagner, 1844

Cervidae
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