Caspian red deer in Arasbaran Protected Area, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
Date 2013
Author Rahiane sHOMAL
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caspian_Red_Deer_(Maral)_in_Arasbaran_forest.jpg

The Caspian red deer (Cervus elaphus maral), is one of the easternmost subspecies of red deer that is native to areas between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea such as Crimea, Asia Minor, the Caucasus Mountains region bordering Europe and Asia, and along the Caspian Sea region in Iran. The Caspian red deer is sometimes referred to as maral, noble deer, or eastern red deer.
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Cervinae
Genus: Cervus
Species: Cervus elaphus
Subspecies: Cervus elaphus maral Gray, 1850