Can you call a female Red Deer a doe
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Can you call a female Red Deer a doe

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As using buck instead of stag for that species.-Doe, a deer, a female deer-Both are correct.......
I read an article that said a female Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) is called a "hind". Would it be wrong to call it a doe?

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Technically a doe is a female fallow deer while a hind is a female red deer. Common usage, however, has extended "doe" to all deer and it has been a female hare or rabbit for more than 400 years. It would be wrong to use "hind" of anything but red deer but you can use "doe" indiscriminately.

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Yes you can. Any female deer is a Doe. I think that "hind" is specific to that species of deer, but doe is widely accepted and no-one would penalise you for it.

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Yes.
Using incorrect language is always "wrong". As using "buck" instead of "stag" for that species.

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Doe, a deer, a female deer

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Both are correct.
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