Barbary Red Deer Cervus elaphus barbarus (Cervus corsicanus)

Barbary Red Deer
Atlas Red Deer
Barbary Red Deer
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.