Sika deer to less than 1,000. Of the five subspecies in China, the North China sika deer ("C. n. mandarinus") is believed to be extinct in the wild since the 1930s; the Shanxi sika deer ("C. n. grassianus") has not been seen in the wild since the 1980s and is also believed to be extinct in the wild. The status of Manchurian sika deer in China is unclear, though it is believed to be extinct, as well, and the sightings there are actually feral populations. The South China sika deer ("C. n. kopschi") and Sichuan sika deer ("C. n. sichuanicus") are the
Rational animal in the Arbor Porphyriana, man is a substance, corporeal, living, sentient, and rational". In Meditation II of "Meditations on First Philosophy", Descartes arrives at his famous "I think, I exist" claim. He then goes on to wonder "What am I?" He considers and rejects the scholastic concept of the "rational animal": Shall I say 'a rational animal'? No; for then I should have to inquire what an animal is, what rationality is, and in this one question would lead me down the slope to other harder ones. Freud was as aware as any of the irrational forces at work in