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Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), also known as the milu or elaphure, is a species of deer that is currently extinct in the wild—all known specimens are found only in captivity.This species of deer was first made known to Western science in 1866 by Armand David (Père David), a French missionary working in China. He obtained the carcasses of an adult male, an adult female and a young male, and sent them to Paris, where the species was named Père David's Deer by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, a French biologist.