Animals With Horns (Or Antlers) And Hooves, Horned, Hoofs

On July 28, 1998 Canada issued its 2nd "Scenic Highways" series as a set of four, 45c stamps arranged in se-tenant fashion in a traditional sheet. One of these stamps (Sc #1739), shown here, depicts the picturesque Dempster highway, Yukon with a large caribou on the left.

From wikipedia, "The reindeer (Rangifer Tarandus) also known as the caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to the Arctic, sub-Arctic, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America."

This 40c stamp of Canada is from a booklet of ten, 40c stamps in 5 different designs showing views of some of the country's wilderness rivers with small, hand drawn highlights in a lower corner. The stamp shown here (Sc #1325) depicts the Main River, Newfoundland and a moose (Alces alces).

Here is the 74c value (Sc #1177) from Canada's "Canadian Mammals" definitive series of 1988-93. Stamp was issued on January 18, 1988 and it depicts a wapiti (Cervus canadensis).

From wikipedia, The elk or wapiti is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae...Elk were long believed to belong to a subspecies of the European red deer (Cervus elaphus), but evidence from many mitochondrial DNA genetics studies beginning in 1998 shows that the two are distinct species."

On November 26, 1984 Switzerland issued its annual youth charity semi postal set. Stamps of this set depict characters from children's books. The 35 + 15 rappen stamp (Sc #B509) shows Heidi with a nanny goat from Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1827-1901).

A Sami child rides a reindeer-drawn sled on this 1952 anti-tuberculosis, Christmas seal of Finland.

Here is another stamp showing a reindeer-drawn sledge. This stamp (Facit # 128) of Greenland was issued on March 26, 1981. It features a drawing done by native son Jens Kreutzmann (1828-1899). In the 1860's, Kreutzmann (born Kretzmer), not an academically trained artist, did a series of drawings depicting everyday life of Greenlanders. These drawings are now in the collection of the Greenland National Museum.

Iceland
Fauna
October 9, 2003
The stamp depicts Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).

Romania
International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation
April 24, 2004
The stamp in the minisheet shows a Red Deer (Cervus elaphus).

Portugal
European Year of Tourism
March 6, 1991
The minisheet depicts a Red Deer (Cervus elaphus).

Japan

The one rupee value from Mauritius's 1953 QEII pictorial definitive series is inscribed "Mauritius deer". Depicted is the Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis), a non-native, or introduced species.

From wikipedia, "The Javan rusa or Sumatra sambar is a deer native to the islands of Indonesia and East Timor. Introduced populations exist in a wide variety of locations in the Southern Hemisphere."

Soemmerring's gazelle (Nanger soemmerringii) is depicted on the 1/8 guerche low value (Sc #120) of Ethiopia's 1919 pictorial definitive set. This gazelle species is native to the Horn of Africa.

On May 28, 1976 Honduras issued a set of 9 "Forest Protection" stamps. This .60 lempira, airmail special delivery stamp (Sc #CE6) from the set depicts a leaping white-tailed deer (Odocoileus Virginianus).

We live in Northern Maine where the US Census tells us we have more Deer and Moose than humans.
I love these stamps!!!