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 three weekly newspapers covering outlying Alberta towns: the "Ponoka News" in Ponoka, the "Rimbey Review" in Rimbey and the "Stettler Independent" in Stettler. In addition to printing its own weekly and daily products, the "Advocate" presses also print, by contract, several other newspapers covering communities in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. 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