Indian spotted deer, chital (Axis axis)

Indian spotted deer, chital (Axis axis)

Cervus axis
Date 1700-1880
Artist Jacques de Sève
Creator:C.F. Fritzsch
Source/Photographer Buffon XI p. 174 pl. XXXIX
Old Latin name Cervus axis
New Latin name Axis axis
Common name Nederlands: Axishert
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cervus_axis_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ21500332.tif

The chital or cheetal or spotted deer or axis deer (Axis axis) is a deer found in the Indian subcontinent. Axis deer is sexually dimorphic: males are larger than females, and antlers are present only on males. The upper parts are golden to rufous, completely covered in white spots.


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Description		Indian spotted deer, chital (Axis axis) Cervus axis Date 1700-1880 Artist Jacques de Sève Creator:C.F. Fritzsch Source/Photographer Buffon XI p. 174 pl. XXXIX Old Latin name Cervus axis New Latin name Axis axis Common name Nederlands: Axishert Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cervus_axis_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ21500332.tif The chital or cheetal or spotted deer or axis deer (Axis axis) is a deer found in the Indian subcontinent. Axis deer is sexually dimorphic: males are larger than females, and antlers are present only on males. The upper parts are golden to rufous, completely covered in white spots.

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