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Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the fallow deer and the chital, and the Capreolinae, including the elk, reindeer (caribou), the Western roe deer, and the Eurasian elk (moose). Female reindeer, and male deer of all species (except the Chinese water deer), grow and shed new antlers each year.
All these combined make the estimations of methane production from wild ruminants only an approximation. For example, in the study that most closely resembled a scientific effort to estimate methane emissions from bison, elk, and deer, that of Galbraith et al. (1998), the animals were fed sun-cured alfalfa pellets.