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
Kashmir stag a number of mitochondrial DNA genetic studies have revealed that the hangul is part of the Asian clade of the elk ("Cervus canadensis"). The IUCN, however, includes it in the new grouping of Central Asian red deer ("Cervus hanglu"), with the Kashmir stag being the type subspecies ("Cervus hanglu hanglu"). This deer has a light rump patch without including the tail. Its coat color is brown with a speckling to the hairs. The inner sides of the buttocks are greyish white, followed by a line on the inner sides of the thighs and black on the upper side of the