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Sika Deer
Cervus nippon
The sika deer is Japan's best-known deer, living in forests and grasslands nationwide and showing white spots in its summer coat. Males use their antlers in autumn contests. The deer around Nara Park, long treasured as messengers of the Kasuga Taisha shrine deities, are a national Natural Monument as "the deer of Nara," and the deer of Kashima in Matsuyama, Ehime, and of Hirado, Nagasaki, are prefectural Natural Monuments.
- Scientific name
- Cervus nippon
- Group
- Mammals
- Prefectures
- Nara, Ehime, Nagasaki
- 日本語
- ニホンジカ
- 简体中文
- 梅花鹿
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The Sika Deer is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Nara, Ehime, Nagasaki.
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