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    Deer are ruminant mammals in the family Cervidae, which includes muntjacs, fallow deer, chital, elk, reindeer, roe deer and moose. Female reindeer and male deer of all species grow and shed new antlers each year. Deer live in a variety of biomes from tundra to tropical rainforest, often inhabiting transitional forest and prairie areas, and clearing open areas in forests can benefit deer populations. Deer are widely distributed across continents except Antarctica and Australia, and occupy different habitats ranging from dense forests to mountains and wetlands.

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    Deer are ruminant mammals in the family Cervidae, which includes muntjacs, fallow deer, chital, elk, reindeer, roe deer and moose. Female reindeer and male deer of all species grow and shed new antlers each year. Deer live in a variety of biomes from tundra to tropical rainforest, often inhabiting transitional forest and prairie areas, and clearing open areas in forests can benefit deer populations. Deer are widely distributed across continents except Antarctica and Australia, and occupy different habitats ranging from dense forests to mountains and wetlands.

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    Deer are ruminant mammals in the family Cervidae, which includes muntjacs, fallow deer, chital, elk, reindeer, roe deer and moose. Female reindeer and male deer of all species grow and shed new antlers each year. Deer live in a variety of biomes from tundra to tropical rainforest, often inhabiting transitional forest and prairie areas, and clearing open areas in forests can benefit deer populations. Deer are widely distributed across continents except Antarctica and Australia, and occupy different habitats ranging from dense forests to mountains and wetlands.

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    Deer are ruminant mammals in the family Cervidae, which includes muntjacs, fallow deer, chital, elk, reindeer, roe deer and moose. Female reindeer and male deer of all species grow and shed new antlers each year. Deer live in a variety of biomes from tundra to tropical rainforest, often inhabiting transitional forest and prairie areas, and clearing open areas in forests can benefit deer populations. Deer are widely distributed across continents except Antarctica and Australia, and occupy different habitats ranging from dense forests to mountains and wetlands.

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    ANIMAL PICTURE

    Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The
    two main groups are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the fallow deer and the chital,
    and the Capreolinae, including the elk, reindeer (caribou), the Western roe deer, and
    the Eurasian elk (moose). Female reindeer, and male deer of all species (except the
    Chinese water deer), grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from
    permanently horned antelope, which are in the same order, Artiodactyla.
    Deer appear in art from Palaeolithic cave paintings onwards, and they have played a role
    in mythology, religion, and literature throughout history, as well as in heraldry. Their
    economic importance includes the use of their meat as venison, their skins as soft,
    strong buckskin, and their antlers as handles for knives. Deer hunting has been a popular
    sport since at least the Middle Ages, and remains an important business today.

    Deer live in a variety of biomes, ranging from tundra to the tropical rainforest. While
    often associated with forests, many deer are ecotone species that live in transitional areas
    between forests and thickets (for cover) and prairie and savanna (open space). The
    majority of large deer species inhabit temperate mixed deciduous forest, mountain mixed
    coniferous forest, tropical seasonal/dry forest, and savanna habitats around the world.
    Clearing open areas within forests to some extent may actually benefit deer populations
    by exposing the understory and allowing the types of grasses, weeds, and herbs to grow
    that deer like to eat. Additionally, access to adjacent croplands may also benefit deer.
    However, adequate forest or brush cover must still be provided for populations to grow
    and thrive.
    Deer are widely distributed, with indigenous representatives in all continents except
    Antarctica and Australia, though Africa has only one native deer, the Barbary stag, a
    subspecies of red deer that is confined to the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of the
    continent. However, fallow deer have been introduced to South Africa. Small species
    of brocket deer and puds of Central and South America, and muntjacs of Asia generally
    occupy dense forests and are less often seen in open spaces, with the possible exception of
    the Indian muntjac. There are also several species of deer that are highly specialized, and
    live almost exclusively in mountains, grasslands, swamps, and "wet" savannas, or
    riparian corridors surrounded by deserts both North America and Eurasia.

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