name: Deer
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source: foodb
status: draft
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name_scientific: Cervidae
description: Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the Cervidae family include white-tailed deer, mule deer such as black-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer (caribou), fallow deer, roe deer and chital. Male deer of all species (except the Chinese water deer) and also female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned animals such as antelope; these are in the same order as deer and may bear a superficial resemblance. The musk deer of Asia and water chevrotain (or mouse deer) of tropical African and Asian forests are not usually regarded as true deer and form their own families, Moschidae and Tragulidae, respectively.
itis_id: 180693
wikipedia_id: Deer
picture_file_name: 535.jpg
picture_content_type: image/jpeg
picture_file_size: 114690
picture_updated_at: null
legacy_id: 562
food_group: Animal foods
food_subgroup: Venison
food_type: Type 1
created_at: 2018-01-18T03:18:03.000Z
updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:26.000Z
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updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: false
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: 9850
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00524