More Hagenbeck Zoo - no tiger this time - juvenile Axis deer (Axis axis) portrait Taken in Hagenbeck Zoo, Hamburg (Germany), May 1999, in case I haven't
told you before :-)
Greetings -
Ralf
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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.