Carpathian red deer

Any pure Red deers in the Netherlands left ( on "de Hoge Veluwe ? ) which should be then germanicus ???

vogelcommando said:

Any pure Red deers in the Netherlands left ( on "de Hoge Veluwe ? ) which should be then germanicus ???

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There are wild red deer in the whole Veluwe area, de Meinweg and since a few years the forest near Weert. The problem is that red deer were favoured hunting material, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were many man-made introductions in the past hundreds of years. There should be some research on Dutch red deer genetics online. If they are "pure & original" stock, they should belong to the elaphus/hippelaphus (which includes germanicus) subspecies, depending how many subspecies you recognize...