Cervids are one of the most common wild herbivores of the world. Of these moose can grow up to 2.33 m tall and weigh as much as 820 kg. The smallest of them all is the northern pudu.
Rank
Cervid
Binomial name
Known maximum mass [kg (lbs)]
Shoulder Height [m]
Image
1
Moose
Alces alces
820 (1808) [1]
2.33
2
Elk
Cervus canadensis
600 (1323)[2]
1.6
3
Sambar
Rusa unicolor
546 (1204)[3]
1.6
4
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
500 (1102)[4]
1.4
5
Reindeer
Rangifer tarandus
318 (701) [5]
1.5
6
Barasingha
Rucervus duvaucelii
280 (617) [6]
1.3
7
White-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
232 (512) [7]
1.2
8
Thorold's deer
Cervus albirostris
230 (507) [8]
1.4
9
Mule deer
Odocoileus hemionus
210 (463) [9]
1.2
10
Père David's deer
Elaphurus davidianus
200 (441) [10]
1.2
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Odocoileus hemionus, Animal Diversity
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deer or a cervid. They are widespread throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes. Cervids range in...
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The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of...
Recently, as of 2014, cases of CWD have been found in both farmed and wild cervids in the US and western Canada. New Zealand is free of CWD.[citation needed]...
(and applied to the word for "branch" or "horn"). Antlers are unique to cervids. The ancestors of deer had tusks (long upper canine teeth). In most species...
data from both continental and island land masses, the body masses of the largest species in a land mass were found to scale to the size of the land mass...
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landscape and social interactions on transmission of disease in a social cervid". Molecular Ecology. 21 (5): 1271–1282. Bibcode:2012MolEc..21.1271V. doi:10...
deer, musk deer, and pronghorns have traditionally been summarized as cervids (Cervioidea), molecular studies provide different—and inconsistent—results...
J.; Wright, R. G. (1988). "Resource Partitioning and Competition Among Cervids in the Northern Rocky Mountains". Journal of Applied Ecology. 25 (1): 19...
to a hormone imbalance. The moose proboscis is distinctive among living cervids due to its large size; it also features nares that can be sealed shut when...
the Nagri Formation but also include other bovids, giraffids, cervine cervids, anthracotheres, suids, hipparionines, rhinocerotids, "tetralophodont gomphotheres"...
Society of London, 165: 75-83, London. Azzaroli, A. & Mazza, P. 1992. "The cervid genus Eucladoceros in the early Pleistocene of Tuscany". Palaeontographia...
meaning 'fly'. The larval stages of Cephenemyia are obligate parasites of cervids. Eggs hatch in the uterus of the female. She then flies close to the head...
those from the east, and females are smaller than males. Among all living cervid species, only the moose and the elk can attain larger sizes. The large,...
interpretation and plastic decoration in the forms of animal heads—bovids, equines, cervids, and even canines—with the fluid pouring from the animals' mouths. Rhyta...
Peresani, Marco (June 2021). "Neanderthal ecology and the exploitation of cervids and bovids at the onset of MIS4: A study on De Nadale cave, Italy". Quaternary...
extracted from fossils indicate that cave bear cubs, reindeer and other cervids (deer) were prominent in the diet of cave lions. Later cave lions seem...
India indicate that boars are usually secondary in preference to various cervids and bovids,[citation needed] though when boars are targeted, healthy adults...
an elk. The phylogenetic placement of the species has been stated to be cervid or camelid. White-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus Several specimens....
Valerius (1987). "On speciation in Ice Age mammals, with special reference to cervids and caprids". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 65 (5): 1067–1084. doi:10.1139/z87-171...
magnitude to the scaling of interspecific antler length to shoulder height in cervids. Furthermore, as Bakker (1970) observed in the context of Dimetrodon, many...
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"Virtual brain endocast of Antifer (Mammalia: Cervidae), an extinct large cervid from South America". Journal of Morphology. 281 (10): 1223–1240. doi:10...
"goat-antelopes" since they are not true antelopes (a true antelope is a bovid with a cervid-like or antilocaprid-like morphology). Most goat-antelopes are gregarious...
ridge of the animal's skull. Antlers are unique to cervids and found mostly on males: the only cervid females with antlers are caribou and reindeer, whose...
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