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
Parapoxvirus of red deer in New Zealand The host cell is denigrated after the cell's membrane is ruptured upon virus' exit. PVNZ causes scabby lesions on the face, lips, ears and velvet of deer. Deer recover in two to three weeks. Animals under two years of age are more often affected than older deer. In order to characterize the strains of Parapoxviruses causing severe disease in wild ruminants in Stelvio Park, Italy, sequencing and comparisons of isolated DNA were conducted. Results demonstrated that the red deer isolates are closely related to the parapox of Red Deer in New Zealand virus. Parapoxvirus of red deer in New Zealand