elk
Elk (scientific name: Elaphurus davidianus) belongs to the deer, English name Père David's deer; Milu; Milu Deer, ancient name 麈. Because it looks like a horse, horns like a deer, like a camel, like a donkey, so called four not like, originating in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, to grass and aquatic plants for food, and sometimes to the sea title seaweed. Body up to two meters, weighing 300 kg. Was widely distributed in East Asia. Later, due to natural climate change and human factors, in the late Han Dynasty almost extinct. Yuan Dynasty, for the hunting, the remnants of the elk was arrested and transported to the royal hunting garden. To the 19th century, only in Beijing Nanhai Zi Royal hunting a group. Shortly after the discovery of the West by the Eight-Power Allied forces to capture and disappear from China in the past. After the failure of the breeding, the number of elk was once reduced to 18, until 1898 (Qing Guangxu twenty-four years) was British to buy and spread to 255, and in 1983 will be part of the individual sent back to China. Then there are more elk back home, and some were released wild. At present the world's total number of elk in about 5000, of which about 3,000 in China. ...