Eld's deer

English

Etymology

Named after British officer Percy Eld in 1844, who discovered it in the Manipur Valley of India in 1838.

Noun

Eld's deer (plural Eld's deer or (nonstandard) Eld's deers)

1. A deer of the endangered species Rucervus eldii endemic to South Asia.

   Synonyms: brow-antlered deer, thameng, thamin, thamyn

   • 1895, Reginald Heber Percy, “Indian Shooting”, in Clive Phillipps-Wolley, Big Game Shooting (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes), 2nd edition, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 268–269:

     In Upper Burmah, Eld’s deer are scarce, and the only way to obtain them is to drive for them with beaters.

   • 1995, Beijing Review, volume 38, page 22:

     There are now more than 500 eld’s^[sic] deers.

   • 1997, Green Economics: Papers Presented at the Conference on Green Economics, Islamabad, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, →ISBN, page 176:

     Preserved and protected wildlife species including eight bears, 39 hog deer, 17 sambar deer, two tairs, 11 Eld’s deers, three leopards, two tigers, a lion and a large number of snakes and crocodiles were also found there.

   • 2001, Mranʻ mā samuiṅʻ, number 8, page 3:

     Eld’s deers are medium sized among the Cervidae and are also herbivours^[sic] (Fig. 6 a-b).

   • 2003, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 41, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, page 717:

     The Eld’s deer, or brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi^[sic]) is a highly endangered Southeast Asian cervid. Eld’s deers were once distributed throughout Asia, their range extending from Manipur in eastern India to Indo-china and southern China.

   • 2023 November, Xiaodong Rao, Jialing Li, Binbin He, Hesheng Wang, Guanmian Wu, Tiantian Teng, Qingping Ling, “Nesting success and potential nest predators of the red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus jabouillei) based on camera traps and artificial nest experiments”, in Hui Zhang, Xiang Liu, Robert John, editors, Key Determinants of Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning and Restoration in Climate Change Sensitive Ecosystems (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution; Frontiers in Environmental Science), Frontiers Media, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 161 and 163:

     Among them, Hainan Eld’s deers (Figure 10A) and several small rodents (Rattus spp.; Figure 10B) were photographed at the two experimental sites. […] In this study, the infrared cameras captured a number of wild animals, such as greater coucals, lesser coucals, and Hainan Eld’s deers. Among them, the greater coucal was the main predator of the experimental eggs, and the feeding activity of Hainan Eld’s deers caused female birds to abandon nests.

Further reading

• Eld's deer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia