What Is The Largest Deer. The two big groups in this family are the cervinae (the old world deer, they have a particular ankle structure) and the capreolinae (the new world deer, different the moose (alces alces) is the biggest of these. The two main groups of deer are the cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, the fallow deer.
A male deer is called a buck but some larger males are referred to as stags.
Female moose do not have antlers. Genetic evidence indicates the red deer as traditionally defined is a species. Bucks are the only deer that grow antlers, which they shed each winter. The smallest deer is the southern pudu, according to the arkive project.
