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Red deer or real deer is an artiodactyl mammal from the deer family. The red deer lives in most of Europe, in the Caucasus, in Asia Minor, Iran, in some parts of Western and Central Asia. It also lives in the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwest Africa, being the only deer species native to Africa. Red deer have been introduced to other areas including Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. In many parts of the world, deer meat is used as food. Red deer are ruminants, which are characterized by a four-chambered stomach. Genetic evidence indicates that the red deer has traditionally been defined as a species complex rather than a distinct species, although it remains disputed exactly how many species this complex includes. The closely related and slightly larger moose or wapiti of North America and eastern parts of Asia has been considered a subspecies of the red deer, but has recently been identified as a separate species. Probably the ancestor o