barbary red deer

held in holding cages out back

These very well could be Barbary deer, but looking at them I'm wondering if they aren't actually Bactrian deer.

You might be right. I had asked a keeper over by the skylift near the polar bears what the deer in the backyard pens were and she had told me they were barbary deer waiting for new homes somewhere else. As the purge of ungulates at the zoo continues...