Elk scientific name: Elaphodus davidianus English name: Milu Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Cervidae. Commonly known as four unlike, because its elk horn is like a deer, its head is like a horse, its body is like a donkey, and its hooves are like cows. Some people say that its horns are like deer, its neck is like camel, its hooves are like cattle and its tail is like donkey. Elk is a class 1 protected animal in China. It has a tail like a donkey, hooves like an ox, a neck like a camel and horns like a deer. This rare animal was originally a specialty of China, which originated in the late Early Pleistocene, more than 2 million years ago. Its fossils are distributed from Liaoning Province in the northeast of China to the south of the Yangtze River, almost all over the eastern part of China. The wild elk population became extinct in the second half of the19th century due to a large number of human hunting and climate change. In the Qing dynasty, only a group was raised in Nanhaizi, a suburb of Beijing in the Royal Hunting Garden. 1865, the French missionary David found the elk in the partition wall of the hunting park and bribed the breeder to get the skin and skull of the elk. The following year, the elk was named after David. Since then, Nanhaizi Elk has flowed into many zoos in Europe. 1900, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and with the flood, all the milu deer in Nanhaizi were wiped out. In 1950s, several breeding animals were brought back from England. 1985, 20 animals were brought back from Wubang Temple in England and settled in Nanhaizi, the ancestral home, to rebuild the population. At present, another milu deer breeding center in China is Jiangsu Dafeng Milu Reserve. It was once widely distributed in all parts of China, and then the wild species became extinct. /kloc-it was stolen and shipped out of the country at the end of 0/9. Only 18 the elk raised by Duke Beffort in Ubons Zoo, a private villa in England, first bred in groups and returned to their hometown in 1956. Elk (also known as the four elephants) live in swamps and beaches. Live in groups and travel daily. Love water, good at swimming and trekking. Feeding on weeds and aquatic plants. Male elk have horns, up to 80 cm long, which are replaced every two years. The male has a shoulder height of1-3m, a body length of more than 2m, a weight of about 250kg and a long tail. The female weighs only 100 kg and her tail is about 60 cm long. The breeding period is from June to August, and there is a courtship struggle. Pregnancy is about 10 months, each baby 1. About 3 years old, sexually mature, life expectancy of about 20 years. Beijing Zoo 1956 began to be exhibited, and 1975 was successfully bred. Jiangsu Dafeng Elk National Nature Reserve is located on the coast of the Yellow Sea in the middle of Jiangsu Province, with a wetland area of 78,000 hectares. The landform is composed of woodland, ludang, grass beach, swamp and salt bare land, which belongs to a typical yellow sea beach wetland. There are many kinds of biodiversity with global significance, which was listed in the list of internationally important wetlands in 2002. In July 2002, the UNDP/GEF project "Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Wetland Biodiversity in China" was officially launched in this nature reserve. The project has greatly improved the management level of nature reserves by carrying out activities such as capacity building, community publicity, public training and equipment assistance. Walking into this tidal flat wetland in vast expanse, it is full of primitive and quaint features everywhere. There are 365,438+05 species of birds, 65,438+02 species of mammals, 27 species of amphibians and reptiles, 65,438+050 species of fish, 599 species of insects and 499 species of plants, including 365,438+0 species of national first-and second-class protected animals, which are listed as rare birds and exotic birds in "national nature reserves". There are swamps, grasslands, ponds and woodlands here, which is a totally enclosed ecological environment and the first free-range elk nature reserve in China. Elk, commonly known as "four elephants", is native to the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Its appearance is similar to that of red deer and red deer, but its tail is long and its character is docile. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this was Royal Hunt Park, and elk began to be kept in free range. After 1890, due to the flood of Yongding River, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded and the elk became extinct. 120 elk were introduced from England in August, 1985, 18 elk were presented to Elk Garden by England in June, 1987. After returning to their hometown, these elk have grown well and multiplied rapidly, and now they have increased to three or four hundred. It has become a protected area with the highest reproductive survival rate in the world. Elk Garden also introduced deer, such as dolphin deer, sika deer, white-lipped deer, red deer, water deer, Zhan deer and roe deer. It has become a "museum" for deer in China.

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