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schomburgk's deer

from the 1899 guide-book. Now extinct, in that time also already rare, this was the first specimen kept at Berlin Zoo.

schomburgk's deer
vogelcommando, 29 Jan 2013
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    • vogelcommando
      from the 1899 guide-book.
      Now extinct, in that time also already rare, this was the first specimen kept at Berlin Zoo.
    • jbnbsn99
      This may be the first image I've seen of this species besides the classic shot shown in Walker's.
    • IanRRobinson
      Thank you very much, vogelcommando. If only someone had made the same effort to preserve this species as the Duke of Bedford was doing, at much the same time, with Pere David's deer.
    • vogelcommando
      You'are so true ......
    • Pertinax
      It looks very like a Swamp Deer to me. Same large rounded ears, face, tail, even the antlers are quite similar in shape. I wonder if it was really a 'good' species or not?
    • IanRRobinson
      They are both deemed to be in Rucervus these days. Maybe they were a species pair analogous to Great Indian and Javan Rhino
    • Tim May
      Yes, it does look very like a swamp deer (barasingha). According to “Ungulate Taxonomy” (Colin Groves and Peter Grubb; 2011) DNA analysis shows Schomburgk’s deer and swamp deer are sister species. (Actually this book recognises three distinct species of swamp deer.)

      Incidentally, London Zoo received a Schomburgk’s deer in 1873 that had been born in Hamburg Zoo about five months earlier.
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