schomburgk's deer

from the 1899 guide-book.
Now extinct, in that time also already rare, this was the first specimen kept at Berlin Zoo.

This may be the first image I've seen of this species besides the classic shot shown in Walker's.

Thank you very much, vogelcommando. If only someone had made the same effort to preserve this species as the Duke of Bedford was doing, at much the same time, with Pere David's deer.

You'are so true ......

It looks very like a Swamp Deer to me. Same large rounded ears, face, tail, even the antlers are quite similar in shape. I wonder if it was really a 'good' species or not?

They are both deemed to be in Rucervus these days. Maybe they were a species pair analogous to Great Indian and Javan Rhino

Pertinax said:

It looks very like a Swamp Deer to me. Same large rounded ears, face, tail, even the antlers are quite similar in shape. I wonder if it was really a 'good' species or not?

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Yes, it does look very like a swamp deer (barasingha). According to “Ungulate Taxonomy” (Colin Groves and Peter Grubb; 2011) DNA analysis shows Schomburgk’s deer and swamp deer are sister species. (Actually this book recognises three distinct species of swamp deer.)

Incidentally, London Zoo received a Schomburgk’s deer in 1873 that had been born in Hamburg Zoo about five months earlier.

Some antlers found in 1991 have been analyzed and its suspected that the species may be alive in a remote area of Laos!