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8-440: Due to the steep slopes around the castle Herberstein, count Johann Maximilian I zu Herberstein chose to give up the idea of keeping cattle around the castle, and he chose to bring fallow deer from Italy, to browse the environment around the castle and this became the origin of the present zoo. In 1888, the area for fenced animals was increased and in the end of 1960, the zoo started to keep exotic animals and opened their gates for

16-810: Is a genus of deer occurring in South and Southeast Asia . As presently defined by most authorities, four species are placed in the genus. Three of the four species are called hog deer . The genus name is a word mentioned in Pliny the Elder 's Natural History. Following the third edition of Mammal Species of the World from 2005, which is also followed by the American Society of Mammalogists , four species are placed in Axis . These four species are divided into two subgenera; Axis containing

24-503: Is derived from the deer's pale brown colour . The Latin word dāma or damma , used for roe deer , gazelles , and antelopes , lies at the root of the modern scientific name, as well as the German Damhirsch , French daim , Dutch damhert , and Italian daino . In Serbo-Croatian , the name for the fallow deer is jelen lopatar ("shovel deer"), due to the form of its antlers. The Modern Hebrew name of

32-561: The extinct genus Megaloceros . The circumscription of the genus is uncertain, with some authors choosing to include taxa that are otherwise placed in the genus Pseudodama , which may be ancestral to Dama . The earliest species of Dama appeared around the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary approximately 2.6 million years ago, or around the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene approximately 0.8 million years ago, depending on

40-539: The fallow deer is yachmur ( יחמור ). The genus includes two extant species: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Some taxonomists classify the Persian fallow deer as a subspecies ( D. d. mesopotamica ), while others, such as the IUCN , treat it as a separate species ( D. mesopotamica ). Based on genetic evidence, Dama is considered to be closest living relative of

48-495: The public. This article on a zoo , aquarium , safari park , dolphinarium , or aviary is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an organisation in Austria is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fallow deer For extinct species, see text Fallow deer is the common name for species of deer in the genus Dama of subfamily Cervinae . The name fallow

56-411: The species included in the genus. The relationships of most Dama species to each other and to other fossil deer are controversial, with no overall consensus on their relationships, aside the close relationship of D. clactoniana with the living Dama species. The earliest Dama species lack palmate (broad and flattened) antlers, with this trait only developing in D. pelleponesica, D. clactoniana , and

64-834: The two living species. Extinct species, based on van der Made et al. 2023: Relationships of Dama to other deer species based on mitochondrial DNA. Hydropotes (water deer) Capreolus (roe deer) Alces (moose) Rangifer (reindeer/caribou) Odocoileini (brocket deer, mule deer, white tailed deer, etc) Elaphodus (tufted deer) Muntiacus (muntjacs) Rucervus (Schomburgk's deer and barasingha) Axis (chital, etc) Dama (Fallow deer) † Megaloceros giganteus (Irish elk) Elaphurus (Père David's deer) Panolia (Eld's deer) Rusa alfredi (Visayan spotted deer) Rusa marianna (Philippine deer) Rusa timorensis (Javan rusa) Rusa unicolor (Sambar deer) Cervus (red deer, elk, sika deer) Axis (genus) See text Axis

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