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The Bokharan Deer in the USSR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

A. G. Bannikov  and
L. V. Zhirnov
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Abstract

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With a total population estimated at under 500, mostly living in forests that are constantly under threat of felling, the Bokharan deer or hangu1 is in serious danger of extinction. This is a red deer subspecies confined to the Turkmenistan —Afghanistan frontier region, and closely akin to the Kashmir hangul described in Oryx, December 1970. In this survey Professor Bannikov and Dr Zhirnov summarise what is known about it and its present status, and point to the rgent need for active protection measures.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 1971 , pp. 50 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1971

References

* In the remote past deer probably of the Caucasian type inhabited the areas along teh rivers of Tedgen and Atrek, possibly coming in fron Iran.