Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Artiodactyla
- ---- family: Cervidae
- ----- species: Dama dama
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Characteristics: | herbivore; height: 90cm, yellowish-fawn coat with bold white spots, underparts white; males carry branched antlers, witch they shed in midsummer, |
Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- LS
- Lesotho
- MZ
- Mozambique
- SZ
- Swaziland
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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Ecoregions: |
- AT0115
- Knysna-Amatole montane forests
- AT0116
- KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0702
- Angolan Mopane woodlands
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0902
- Etosha Pan halophytics
- AT0907
- Zambezian flooded grasslands
- AT0908
- Zambezian halophytics
- AT1003
- Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1006
- Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
- AT1201
- Albany thickets
- AT1202
- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1203
- Montane fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
- AT1314
- Nama Karoo
- AT1316
- Namibian savanna woodlands
- AT1322
- Succulent Karoo
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References: | Stuart and Stuart 2007: 246 |