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Rucervus duvaucelii (barasingha; swamp deer)

Synonyms: Cervus duvaucelii; Cervus eldi

Wikipedia Abstract

The barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii syn. Cervus duvaucelii), also called swamp deer, is a deer species distributed in the Indian subcontinent. Populations in northern and central India are fragmented, and two isolated populations occur in southwestern Nepal. It is extinct in Pakistan and in Bangladesh. The specific name commemorates the French naturalist Alfred Duvaucel. In Assamese, barasingha is called dolhorina; dol meaning swamp. In central India, it is called goinjak (stags) or gaoni (hinds).
View Wikipedia Record: Rucervus duvaucelii

Infraspecies

Rucervus duvaucelii branderi
Rucervus duvaucelii duvaucelii
Rucervus duvaucelii ranjitsinhi

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Rucervus duvaucelii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  374.788 lbs (170.00 kg)
Female Weight [3]  352.741 lbs (160.00 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 years
Gestation [1]  8 months 10 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  25 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  4.92 feet (150 cm)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kanha Tiger Reserve National Park II 223971 Madhya Pradesh, India
Manas National Park II 135025 Assam, India

Emblem of

Madhya Pradesh

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Cuon alpinus (Dhole)[5]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Dry season diets of sympatric ungulates in lowland Nepal: competition and facilitation in alluvial tall grasslands, Per Wegge, Anil K. Shrestha, Stein R. Moe, Ecol Res (2006) 21:698–706
♦ 5Cuon alpinus, James A. Cohen, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 100, pp. 1-3 (1978)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0