Milu (Père David deer) & Bactrian deer at The Wilds in Cumberland, OH

Wild Animals of Yesterday & To-Day. Written by Frank Finn. Illustrated by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. 1913.

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Père David's deer By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

Père David's deer Elaphurus davidianus

Observed by amarzee, CC BY-NC

Unique perspective of a unique cervid - a Père David deer.

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JTTW Chapter 19

Chapter 19 for the @journeythroughjourneytothewest Reading Group!

Once again I really like the theme of working for your abilities. Zhu Bajie wasn’t a chosen one, he had to work hard to become an Immortal, though his meeting with the true Immortal was lucky of course.

It’s quite curious how often Sun Wukong has a hard time getting inside caves, either outright by being barred or due to some other thing. Something to keep an eye on.

I believe he didn’t just head back to check in on his Shifu, but also to clarify some things with old Mr. Gao.

In the J. F. Jenner translation after Tang Sanzang asks where Sun Wukong was all night, Wukong says “[h]e's no common or garden ghost” referring to Zhu Bajie, which made me think of the HTTYD books and the common or garden dragon, which is how I managed to figure the meaning. Afterwards I actually looked up the specific meaning of calling something common or garden, which is used to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.

Ah it’s always the problem of appearance. A tale as old as time I feel.

“[A] man who breaks someone's door and enters without permission may be guilty of trespassing” I think that’s not just trespassing, that’s breaking and entering.

‘Ice iron’ sounds like such a JRPG term, I wonder if it’s ever been used as such. It might, but if it hasn’t that’s potential untapped if you ask me.

So it’s been years since Guanyin came by, huh. She must have been quite thorough at surveying the path then if it took this long!

Nice to see they manage to talk it out like that this time. Progress compared to the dragon instance.

Why does Sun Wukong insist on arson? There is a disproportionate amount of arson in relation to him, I wonder if this will persist into later chapters or not. Another thing to keep an eye on!

Okay, so Monkey is Metal and Zhu Bajie is associated with Wood, good let’s keep track of that.

Oh yeah, I can see why people may entertain a ship between those two. This poem just lends itself to that interpretation. Like overtly so.

Tang Sanzang just doesn’t get to actually name anyone. Only ever nicknames, it’s kind of funny.

Also interestingly enough in the J. F. Jenner translation it is Sun Wukong who remarks on their religious names matching.

Sun Wukong admitting to being a lightweight, we love to see a king knowing his limits.

Also very nice that Tang Sanzang allows them to have wine but draws the line at them getting drunk. Reminds me a bit of our lovely Paladin from DnD Honour Among Thieves. He’s got his code, but he is willing to adjust it to work with the world around him.

Hold on a moment, the Eight Rules forbid dancing and music?! I need to look into that a bit more, because if it is how it appears at face value I don’t know how to feel about this.

Very sweet of Sun Wukong to give Gao Cai some of the money!

Verdant returns! Zhu Bajie’s new outfit is actually verdant.

Blue and pink phoenixes you say? Trans pride phoenixes perhaps? That’s what I’m imagining anyway.

Deer check time! In the Chinese original it is a [麋鹿 Mílù] in English known as Père David's deer!

Wait, the guy literally hangs out in a crow’s nest? That’s pretty neat.

Oooh Sha Wujing foreshadowing! No mention of our Bailong Ma this chapter though, sad.

Père David’s deer (Elaphurus davidianus)

Endemic to the river valleys of China, this semi-aquatic deer species supplements a diet of mainly grass with aquatic plants. They sometimes cycle through two sets of antlers every year! Pêre David’s deer is another triumph of conservation. At the end of the 19th century, the species became wholly extinct in China, with only a small population remaining in European zoos. But during the 1980s, the species was finally re-introduced to the wild. As of today there are more than 9000 deer in their native China, almost 3000 of which live in the wild!

Cerf du Père David - Il avait déjà disparu du milieu naturel lorsqu'il fut découvert pour les occidentaux par le père Armand David, un missionnaire et naturaliste français, dans le parc impérial de chasse de Pékin. Quelques spécimens ont été amenés dans des zoos européens, ce qui sauva l'espèce de l'extinction lorsque les cerfs restés sur place furent décimé par une inondation du palais impérial, puis les derniers spécimens tués et mangés par les troupes européennes et japonaise, durant la Révoltes des Boxers entre 1899 et 1901.

Lieu : Pairi Daiza

today ive decided to assign yhe choir deer. thanks in adavance

ocean- père davids deer. also known as the milu or the elaphure. barely a deer. native to parts of china. completely extinct in the wild.

noel- sika deer. native to most of east asia.

mischa- sambar deer. native mostly to india, southeen china and southwest asia. a vunerable species

ricky- chital. also known as the spotted deer, or the axis deer. native almost entirely to the indian subcontinent (india)

penny- reindeer. no i dont care if you think its a deer or not. shh. native to the coldest areas of northwrn europe, siberia and north america. a vunerable species

jane- moose. barely a deer anymore. huge. like hitting a brick wall. be scared of moose. native to north america. where i live. i am scared of moose. you should be too

constance- a fallow deer. native to southeast europe/northwest asia, mostly. turkey, the tip of italy, the balkans. texas also has a bunch now, but thats our fault not the deer.

bonus:

ezra- the southern pudu. not even sure this counts as a deer anymore but thats what the sciencists say so i have to listen. they are that small btw. native to south america. a vunerable species. an ugly one too

okay thank you :]

This adopt is unique, no bases used. Suggested name Milue Evergreen or Ellaphie Greenspan/Willowcrown I imagine this character to be a Père David's deer, also known as the milu or elaphure, a rare species of deer, but the species is up to a future owner.

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Deercember Day Ten: Burmese Eld's Deer | Guardian

The Burmese Eld's deer (Panolia eldii thamin, or Rucervus eldii thamin), also known as the thamin or Burmese brow-antlered deer, is an endangered subspecies of deer endemic to Myanmar and westernmost Thailand. Subject to indiscriminate hunting in the past—until the ownership of guns was controlled after the 1960s—the thamin now has a population of about 1,000. Initially, the Smithsonian National Zoo acquired a few thamin for observations and subsequently shifted a few to its Conservation and Research Center at Front Royal, Virginia for biological study. For a cross–check of the biological studies done at the research center, the Smithsonian Institution selected the Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected park. Special studies on the thamin deer were conducted by the conservation scientists headed by Christen Wemmer of the Smithsonian. They gathered details on the biology and survival of the species by duly correlating with the changes that occurred in the ecology of the region of the Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary. Under the research project study, the ecology of thamin and a series of training courses in biodiversity were organised. In 1850, John Edward Gray proposed the name Panolia eldii for the species. Despite now being classified under Rucervus in most modern taxonomic systems, it has recently been proposed that it should be moved back to the genus Panolia on the basis of recent genetic findings that place it closer to Père David's deer than to other members of the genus Rucervus. More information about all Eld's subspecies here.

Reference: Deer and Background.

The Quizzer Book of Knowledge: Nature. Written and edited by George Beal. 1978.

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Père David's deer By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

Père David's deer Elaphurus davidianus

Observed by amarzee, CC BY-NC

#mermay 6: For some weird reason, I recognize antlers. A friend had a strange antler on the wall she'd got from a thrift store, and I asked, "Where the hell did you get an antler from a Père David's deer?"