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 province of
China. This subspecies forms, along with the closely related
Sichuan deer, 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 ma ...
, the southernmost wapiti group.
References
Elk and red deer
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