The Kansu red deer (''Cervus canadensis kansuensis'') is a subspecies of

wapiti The elk (''Cervus canadensis''), also known as the wapiti, is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia. The comm ...

found in the

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

province of

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. This subspecies forms, along with the closely related

Sichuan deer The Sichuan deer (''Cervus canadensis macneilli''), also known as MacNeill's deer, is a subspecies of the Elk native to Western China. Description This large, highland deer is of very pale, finely spotted color with gray or brownish black. The ...

, and

Tibetan red deer The Tibetan red deer (''Cervus canadensis wallichi'') also known as ''shou'', is a subspecies of elk/wapiti native to the southern Tibetan highlands and Bhutan. Once believed to be near-extinct, its population has increased to over 8,300, the maj ...

, the southernmost wapiti group.

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