Deer in Kazakhstan

Basically, in Kazakhstan there are Tugai red deer, which is listed in the Red Book - this is the last of 8 species of red deer. The rest died out by the mid-50s of the 20th century. The last species that remains lives in the desert zone.
Until the end of the 19th century, tugai deer lived in the floodplain of the middle and lower reaches of the river. Syrdarya - from the Aral Sea to the city of Kzyl-Orda. He also lived in Tugai forests and reed thickets, in the floodplains of desert rivers, along the outskirts of the Kazylkum desert.

As for anthropometric data, the Tugai deer is about 120 cm tall at the withers. Males have horns only until spring, and females have no horns at all, the length of the horns reaches 110 cm. The weight of deer is about 200 kg, the color is light ash with a brownish-yellow tint.

To date, there are very few of these deer left, so the only nursery in Kazakhstan has launched the project “Restoration of the population of Bukhara deer along the floodplain of the Syrdarya River”

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