red deer (Cervus elaphus)
Artist Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788)  
Creator:C.F. Fritzsch
Description
Cervus elaphus
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Buffon VI p. 18 pl. III
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cervus_elaphus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ21500234.tif
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor, Iran, parts of western Asia, central Asia and the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa. |