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Indian spotted deer, chital (Axis axis)
Subject: Indian spotted deer, chital (Axis axis)
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Cervus axis - gewei - 1870 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ21500340.jpg
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Indian spotted deer, chital (Axis axis)


Cervus axis - gewei
Date 1870
Source/Photographer The Field, the country gentleman's newspaper, 12-2-1870, p. 146
Old Latin name Cervus axis
New Latin name Axis axis
Common name Nederlands: Axishert
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cervus_axis_-_gewei_-_1870_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ21500340.tif

The chital or cheetal or spotted deer or axis deer (Axis axis) is a deer found in the Indian subcontinent. Axis deer is sexually dimorphic: males are larger than females, and antlers are present only on males. The upper parts are golden to rufous, completely covered in white spots.

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