• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), …

    So, yes, it is a deer. Because caribou are a type of deer.

    It would be like seeing a photo of a pigeon that someone called a “bird”, and saying “that’s not a bird, it’s a pigeon”.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      except when people say deer they mean a generic deer, they don’t mean reindeer, they don’t mean elk, they don’t mean moose.

      it’s like someone saying “i hit a bird last night” when they hit a fucking ostrich