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The difference between a deer and antelope

Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope is? In the Oxford dictionary I have it states that an antelope is a swift running deer like animal. While a deer is a hoofed grazing or browsing animal. Does this mean that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?
  

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[nq:1]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope is? In the Oxford dictionary I have it states that ... is a hoofed grazing or browsing animal.

  • [nq:1]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope is?
  • In the Oxford dictionary I have it states that ...
  • is a hoofed grazing or browsing animal.
  • [/nq] Deer belong to the deer family, Cervidae.
  • Antelope belong to the bovid family, Bovidae.
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[nq:1]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope is? In the Oxford dictionary I have it states that ... is a hoofed grazing or browsing animal. Does this mean that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?[/nq]
Deer belong to the deer family, Cervidae. Antelope belong to the bovid family, Bovidae. oxen, sheep, and goats are other bovids.

Raymond S. Wise
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[nq:1]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope is? In the Oxford dictionary I have it states that an antelope is a swift running deer like animal. While a deer is a hoofed grazing or browsing animal.[/nq]
Notice that saying something is a "deer-like animal" is very different from saying that it's a deer.
[nq:1]Does this mean that the only difference is that an antelope is
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[nq:1]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope is? In the Oxford dictionary I have it states that ... is a hoofed grazing or browsing animal. Does this mean that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?[/nq]
OED says 'Antelope - The popular and literary name for the numerous species of the deer-like ruminant genus Antilope (Pallas), the limits of which have been vari
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[nq:1]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope is? In the Oxford dictionary I have it states that ... is a hoofed grazing or browsing animal. Does this mean that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?[/nq]
One defining difference is that deer have antlers and antelopes have horns. Antlers, unlike horns, are shed annually.

John H
Yorkshire, England
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Mark filted:
[nq:1]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope is? In the Oxford dictionary I have it states that ... is a hoofed grazing or browsing animal. Does this mean that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?[/nq]
Pace Bobcat Goldthwait, I think it's that there's more dark meat on an antelope..
(When the deer and the antelope play, the deer always elec
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[nq:2]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope ... that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?[/nq]
[nq:1]Deer belong to the deer family, Cervidae. Antelope belong to the bovid family, Bovidae. oxen, sheep, and goats are other bovids.[/nq]
Except for the "antelope" of "where the deer and the antelope play" fame, which is the pronghorn, and is not in the Bovidae
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[nq:2]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope ... that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?[/nq]
[nq:1]One defining difference is that deer have antlers and antelopes have horns. Antlers, unlike horns, are shed annually.[/nq]
And mistaking antelopes for deer
has led to mutilation of animals,
in the days that animals taken from the wild
were still
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[nq:1]Mark filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope ... that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?[/nq]
[nq:1]Pace Bobcat Goldthwait, I think it's that there's more dark meat on an antelope.. (When the deer and the antelope play, the deer always elect to defend the goal)..r[/nq]
Oh give me a home
Where the buffalo roam
And I'll s
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Actually, John H explained the essential difference: deer have deciduous horns, while antelope don't. Most deer, as he also mentions, also have branched horns (antlers), and no antelope do.

Mike.
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[nq:1]Mark filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Who knows what the difference between a deer and antelope ... that the only difference is that an antelope is faster?[/nq]
[nq:1]Pace Bobcat Goldthwait, I think it's that there's more dark meat on an antelope.. (When the deer and the antelope play, the deer always elect to defend the goal)..r[/nq]
Neither is at home on the range. Or in the fridge.

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