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Capreolus pygargus (eastern roe deer)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Siberian roe deer or eastern roe deer (Capreolus pygargus) is a species of roe deer found in northeastern Asia. In addition to Siberia and Mongolia, it is found in Kazakhstan, the Tian Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan, eastern Tibet, the Korean Peninsula, and northeastern China (Manchuria). Its specific name pygargus, literally "white-rumped", is shared by the pygarg, an antelope known in the antiquity. The name was chosen by the German biologist Peter Simon Pallas in the late 18th century.The roe deer has long antlers.
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Infraspecies

Capreolus pygargus bedfordi
Capreolus pygargus mantschuricus
Capreolus pygargus ochraceus
Capreolus pygargus pygargus
Capreolus pygargus tianschanicus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.39
EDGE Score: 2.24
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  86.973 lbs (39.45 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  3.858 lbs (1.75 kg)
Male Weight [3]  45.195 lbs (20.50 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year 1 month
Male Maturity [3]  1 year 9 months
Gestation [1]  9 months 24 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  18 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  4.658 feet (142 cm)
Weaning [1]  4 months 17 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Daurskiy Biosphere Reserve 562659 Russia  
Nujiang Nature Reserve   China      
Prioksko-Terrasny Biosphere Reserve IV 12219 Moscow, Russia
Sokhondinskiy Biosphere Reserve Ia 521363 Chita, Russia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Predators

Canis lupus (Wolf)[4]
Lynx lynx (Eurasian Lynx)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ogmocotyle pygargi <Unverified Name>[5]
Ostertagia antipini[5]
Ostertagia lyrataeformis[5]
Taenia parenchymatosa[5]

Range Map

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
♦ 4Capreolus pygargus, Aleksey A. Danilkin, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 512, pp. 1-7 (1995)
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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