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Cervidae

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Cervidae

Mammal family comprising the true deer. There are about 41 living species and many extinct species are known from their fossilized remains.

Cervids are all ruminants and are characterized by the presence of antlers in all males, except those of the musk deer and Chinese water deer, and in the female reindeer. The antlers are shed annually, after the rut (mating season). Representatives of the family occur wild in every continent except Australasia and Antarctica; they have been introduced into Australia and New Zealand.

Classification

Cervidae is in the order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals).



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Idaho code, 25-3705A(3) reads, "Any domestic cervidae [members of the deer family--deer, elk, moose], that have escaped the control of the owner .
BSE was only observed in different species from the families Bovidae and Felidae in zoos (14) but not in members of the family Cervidae, even though they were most likely also exposed to BSE-contaminated food (6).
 
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