Sri lankan Sambar Deer

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name = Sambar
status = LC
image_width = 250px


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
subordo = Ruminantia
familia = Cervidae
subfamilia = Cervinae
genus = "Cervus"
species = "C. unicolor"
subspecies = "C. u. unicolor"
trinomial = "Cervus unicolor unicolor"
trinomial_authority = (Kerr, 1792)

Sri Lankan Sambar Deer ("Cervus unicolor unicolor") is a sub-species of Sambar Deer that lives in Sri Lanka. This subspecies is one of the largest Sambar Deer species with the largest antlers both in size and in body proportions. Large males weight up to 270-280 kg. Sri Lankan Sambar occurs in lowland dry forest, montane forest. Large herds of Sambar Deer roam the Horton Plains National Park, where it is the most common large mammal.

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