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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order:
Artiodactyla Family: Cervidae Subfamily: Cervinae Genus: Cervus
Species: C. albirostris Binomial name Cervus albirostris
(Przewalski, 1883)  Przewalskium albirostris Przewalskium
albirostre  Thorold's deer (Cervus albirostris)[2] is a
threatened species of deer found in grassland, shrubland and
forest at high altitudes in the eastern Tibetan Plateau.[3] It
is also known as the white-lipped deer (Baichunlu, 白唇鹿, in
Simplified Chinese, ཤྭ་བ་མཆུ་དཀར།་ in Standard Tibetan) for the
white patches around its muzzle.[4]  This deer fills an
ecological niche similar to the Shou (the subspecies wallichi of
the Red Deer species group). It was first scientifically
described by Nikolai Przhevalsky in 1883,[1] and the first
specimens were procured by G. W. Thorold,[3] after whom the
species is named. As of early 2011, more than 100 Thorold's deer