The Barbary or Atlas Red Deer is native to forests of the Atlas Mountains in North Africa. It is considered a
smaller subspecies of the Eurasian Red Deer with simpler (less-branched) antlers. It is the only deer species native to Africa.
Since DNA studies indicate it is the same as the Corsican Red Deer of Corsica/Sardinia, it is assumed that the deer on these Italian islands
were introduced from North Africa and it has been proposed that both should be split into a separate species called
Cervus corsicanus.