Deer modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German "Tier" and Norwegian "dyr" mean "animal". For many types of deer in modern English usage, the male is a "buck" and the female a "doe", but the terms vary with dialect, and according to the size of the species. The male red deer is a "stag", while for other large species the male is a "bull", the female a "cow", as in cattle. In older usage, the male of any species is a "hart", especially if over five years old, and the female is a
Red Deer Advocate Red Deer Advocate The Red Deer Advocate is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Published by Black Press, the newspaper was first established in 1901 as the "Red Deer Echo", changing its name to "Alberta Advocate" in 1903 and "Red Deer Advocate" in 1906. Originally it was a weekly newspaper issued on Fridays. The "Advocate" now publishes daily, from Tuesday to Friday as the Monday edition was dropped late in 2016, with the slogan "Central Alberta's Daily Newspaper". The newspaper publishes weekly supplements called "Friday Forward" (for city residents) and "Central Alberta Life" (for rural communities), and owns