the withers-height of the Sikahirsche fluctuates from 75-110 cm, its weight of 22-110 kg. The 13 subtypes are from quite different size. The biggest races are the Dybowskihirsch from the southern Ussurigebiet and the Manchurian Sika. The smallest occur on Taiwan and in Japan. In the Pleistozän, the Sikawild lived also in Europe.
The major antlers of the Sikahirsches shows 8 or 10 ends. Augsprosse, means-rungs and Endgabel exist; the construction of the antlers resembles that of the red-stag. The antlers is colored red in the bast.
The fur of the Dybowskihirsche is white spotted. Vanish more or less the white spot in the gloomily dun reason-color in the winter. The summer-fur is red shining until maroon. Over the back, a dark eel-line runs, that continues in the black tail-upper side. The white mirror is bordered black.
Habitat Sikahirsche live in forests and parklands in the level and in the mountains.
Way of life These stags meet to big stoves occasionally. they are active at both the day and in it night. Over its way of life in the wild, it is not much known since only few animals live in freedom.
its enemies are tigers, leopards and wolves or red-dogs, according to spread-area.
Reproduction The Brunft lasts from November to December. During this time, the stags fight together. The Brunftruf is a loud, shrill scream, that the stags discharge predominantly in the twilight. After a Tragzeit of average 223 days is set a spotted calf. Twin-births are an exception.
Relationships to the human being In Japan, the Sikahirsch is a popular park-game, who becomes half-tame. Different Sika-Rassen play a very important role for the Panten-Gewinnung. The bast-antlerses enriched with sexual-hormones are sawed off the stags. The dried and pulverized bast-antlerses represent the Panten. An important role in Eastern Asia's people-medicine plays this. Panten is assessed accordingly highly. The Pantenjagd threatened the continuances of East-Asian stag-types seriously. Since the stags became so rare, that the hunt is worthwhile no more, was furnished in many sharing of China, Siberia and other Asian countries' stag-farms to the Pantengewinnung.
The stags are driven to the "harvest" into a narrow lattice where one takes away the antlers-poles for them and releases the animals again into the farm-terrain afterwards.
Endangering Sikahirsche are threatened in its continuance. The Dybowskihirsch (Cervus nippon dybowskii) already is out wiped in the wild.
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