Terrestrial Cetartiodactyla

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Wild Boar Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758

   • Massimo Scandura, Tomasz Podgórski, Joaquin Vicente, Laura Iacolina

   Pages 1-27

3. Reeves’ Muntjac Muntiacus reevesi (Ogilby, 1839)

   • Norma G. Chapman

   Pages 29-50

4. Red Deer Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758

   • Stefano Mattioli, Frank E. Zachos, Luca Rossi, Adrian M. Lister, Luca Corlatti

   Pages 51-86

5. Sika Cervus nippon Temminck, 1838

   • Rory Putman, Jarmila Krojerová-Prokešová, Miroslava Barančeková

   Pages 87-114

6. Common Fallow Deer Dama dama (Linnaeus, 1758)

   • Anna Maria De Marinis, Roberta Chirichella, Marco Apollonio

   Pages 115-154

7. Axis Deer Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777)

   • Nikica Šprem, Frank E. Zachos

   Pages 155-163

8. European Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758)

   • Rita Lorenzini, Mark Hewison, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Luisa Garofalo, Luca Rossi, Nicolas Morellet et al.

   Pages 165-195

9. Chinese Water Deer Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe, 1870

   • Arnold S. Cooke

   Pages 197-213

10. Moose Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758)

    • Magdalena Niedziałkowska, Wiebke Neumann, Tomasz Borowik, Marta Kołodziej-Sobocińska, Jonas Malmsten, Jon M. Arnemo et al.

    Pages 215-245

11. Reindeer Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758)

    • Øystein Holand, Ivan Mizin, Robert B. Weladji

    Pages 247-276

12. White-Tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780)

    • Jenni Poutanen, Mikael Wikström, Jon E. Brommer

    Pages 277-288

13. European Bison Bison bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758)

    • Rafał Kowalczyk, Glenn Plumb

    Pages 289-311

14. Muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann, 1780)

    • Niels Martin Schmidt, Mikkel Stelvig

    Pages 313-323

15. Northern Chamois Rupicapra rupicapra (Linnaeus, 1758) and Southern Chamois Rupicapra pyrenaica Bonaparte, 1845

    • Luca Corlatti, Juan Herrero, Francesco Ferretti, Pia Anderwald, Ricardo García-González, Sabine E. Hammer et al.

    Pages 325-366

16. Barbary Sheep Ammotragus lervia (Pallas, 1777)

    • Nikica Šprem, Pavao Gančević, Toni Safner, Klemen Jerina, Jorge Cassinello

    Pages 367-381

17. Alpine Ibex Capra ibex Linnaeus, 1758

    • Alice Brambilla, Bruno Bassano, Iris Biebach, Kurt Bollmann, Lukas Keller, Carole Toïgo et al.

    Pages 383-408

18. Iberian Wild Goat Capra pyrenaica Schinz, 1838

    • Ricardo García-González, Juan Herrero, Pelayo Acevedo, Mari Cruz Arnal, Daniel Fernández de Luco

    Pages 409-431

19. Caucasian Tur Capra caucasica Güldenstaedt et Pallas, 1783

    • Paul Weinberg, Bejan Lortkipanidze

    Pages 433-457

20. Wild Goat Capra aegagrus Erxleben, 1777

    • Paul Weinberg, Sandro Lovari

    Pages 459-474

This volume provides comprehensive overviews of each terrestrial cetartiodactyl species’ biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat and diet. Their economic significance and management, as well as future challenges for research and conservation are also addressed. Each chapter includes a distribution map, a photograph of the animal and key literature. This authoritative volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe is a timely and detailed compilation of all European terrestrial cetartiodactyls and will appeal to academics and students in mammal research, as well as to professionals dealing with mammal management, including control, use and conservation.

• Artiodactyla
• Bovidae
• Cervidae
• Suidae
• even-toed ungulates
• hoofed animals
• cetartiodactyls biology

“The book is a very helpful source to study wild terrestrial artiodactyla in Europe. It will become one of the references for the even-toed ungulates of Europe.” (Thiemo Braasch, Suiform Soundings, Vol. 22 (1), 2023)

• ERSAF - Stelvio National Park, Office of Scientific Research and Conservation, Bormio (SO), Italy

  Luca Corlatti

• Natural History Museum Vienna, Department of Evolutionary Biology,, Mammal Collection, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Frank E. Zachos

Luca Corlatti is Senior Wildlife Ecologist at the Stelvio National Park (Italy) and Affiliate Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Germany). He obtained a MSc in Forest and Environmental Sciences at the University of Padua (Italy) in 2006. After research experiences in Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Scotland, in 2013 he obtained a PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Siena (Italy). In 2016 he was recipient of a Marie Curie-Skłodowska Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Ecology at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (Germany); between 2017 and 2021 he held a Postdoc position with the Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Management at the University of Freiburg. His research interests primarily focus on the ecology, behavior and management of mountain-dwelling ungulates. He is Associate Editor of Mammalian Biology and Wildlife Biology, and member of the Caprinae Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.



Frank E. Zachos is head of the Mammal Collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria, affiliated lecturer at the University of Vienna and affiliated professor at the Department of Genetics at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He studied biology, history of science and philosophy in Kiel and Jena, Germany, and received his PhD in zoology in 2005. In 2009, he completed his habilitation for zoology and evolutionary biology. His main research topics comprise the intraspecific biodiversity, phylogeography, population genetics and conservation of mammals and birds, with a particular focus on red deer and other ungulates. He also has a long-standing interest in species concepts and the species problem as well as other theoretical and philosophical issues in evolutionary biology and systematics. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Mammalian Biology from2007 to 2021, and he is currently the editor of the Mammalia series within the Handbook of Zoology.

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