Deer

A deer (unchanged in plural) is a ruminant mammal belonging to one of several genera in the traditional order Artiodactyla.

Larger white-tailed deer	Larger deer

Larger deer running

Deer are associated with the following genera:

From the Family Tragulidae[?]

• Tragulus[?] - Mouse deer

From the Family Cervidae[?]

• Axis - Axis or Hog deer
• Hydropotes inermis[?] - Chinese Water deer
• Cervus Dama[?] - Fallow deer
• Elaphurus davidianus[?] - Pere David's deer
• Ozotoceros bezoarticus[?] - Pampas deer
• Rangifer tarandus - Reindeer and Caribou
• Cervus elaphus[?] - Red deer
• Capreolus capreolus[?] - Roe deer
• Cervus Nippon[?] - Sika deer
• Blastocerus dichotomus[?] - Swamp deer
• Odocoileus virginianus[?] - Whitetail deer

From the Family Moschidae[?] - Musk deer

• Moschus chrysogaster[?]
• Moschus moschiferous[?]
• Moschus sifanicus[?]

The common name deer is loosely defined so that animals in other genera of these two families could be considered to be deer even if the word doesn't appear in their common name. eg. elk, moose, chevrotain[?].

The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually.

Their flesh, for which they are hunted and farmed, is called venison[?].