Hart (deer) "As pants the hart for cooling streams" for its common meter (CM) rendering of the Psalm 42 text. Hart (deer) Hart is an archaic word for "stag" (from Old English "heorot", "deer" – compare with modern Dutch "hert", medieval French "hart", German "Hirsch" and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish "hjort", also "deer"). Specifically, "hart" was used in medieval times to describe a red deer stag more than five years old. In medieval hunting terms, a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd"
Corsican red deer Corsican red deer Corsican red deer ("Cervus elaphus corsicanus" or "Cervus corsicanus"), also known simply as Corsican or Sardinian deer, is a subspecies of the red deer ("Cervus elaphus"), endemic to the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France). The Corsican deer is smaller than most of the 16 subspecies of red deer; has shorter legs (possibly to better scramble up mountain sides) and a longer tail. The antlers are also simplified and shorter, typically less than in length. Coat is brownish. Life expectancy is 13–14 years. Males reach a height of and a weight of ; while females