China releases 47 milu deer into wild in major lake

Xinhua | Updated: 2018-04-04 10:10
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This aerial photo taken on April 3, 2018 shows a herd of galloping milu deer in the wetland around Poyang Lake in East China's Jiangxi province. [Photo/Xinhua]

The species, still under A-level state protection in China, was named after Armand David, a French missionary and naturalist who first recorded the existence of the deer in China in 1865.

In 1986, the British government gifted 39 milu deer to Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve in east China's Jiangsu Province, starting the revival of the population in its homeland.

Milu was first mentioned in Chinese books more than 2,000 years ago. The wetland deer species bears the odd nickname of "sibuxiang," or "like none of the four" for its unique features -- a horse's face, a donkey's tail, cow-like hooves and a stag's antlers.

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