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
Corsican red deer Reintroduction could finally begin in 1998, and as of 2007, the Corsican population was about 250 individuals with a total of about 1,000 for the subspecies which has therefore been downgraded to near threatened on the IUCN Red List. 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