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Gale, born to mother, Piper, and father, Freddie, is the second Pere David’s Deer born at the zoo in the past two years.

In one, he compares himself to a ��è���� David’s deer — a species that, by the time a French missionary became in the 19th century the first Westerner to see it, existed only in captivity, in the Chinese emperor’s hunting preserve.

They are expected to have various animals but, for now, Gill said they have ring-tailed lemurs, sulcata tortoises, Pere David’s deer, red kangaroos, coatimundi, African crested porcupines, Muntiacini, and a Nubian ibex which are being held at their homes until their enclosures are finished on location.

“Donkeys, rabbits, dogs, cats and ��è���� David’s deer,” Ms. Stieren said.

The grouping of Eld’s deer with ��è���� David’s deer also led to the curious idea that the latter might have arisen as a hybrid of Eld’s deer and a wapiti-type cervine – a subject that I covered in an article from last year devoted to ��è���� David’s deer.