In the Himalayan foothills, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and eastern Taiwan, it ranges up to 3,500 m (11,500 ft). The sambar is distributed in much of South Asia as far north as the south-facing slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal, Bhutan and India, in mainland Southeast Asia including Burma, Thailand, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia ( Sumatra and Borneo), Taiwan, and South China, including Hainan. This sometimes oozes a white liquid, and is apparently glandular in nature. Īdult males and pregnant or lactating females possess an unusual hairless, blood-red spot located about halfway down the underside of their throats. The tail is relatively long for deer, and is generally black above with a whitish underside. Sambar also have a small but dense mane, which tends to be more prominent in males. The shaggy coat can be from yellowish brown to dark grey in colour, and while it is usually uniform in colour, some subspecies have chestnut marks on the rump and underparts. As with most deer, only the males have antlers. The antlers are typically up to 110 cm (43 in) long in fully adult individuals. The large, rugged antlers are typically rusine, the brow tines being simple and the beams forked at the tip, so they have only three tines. Among all living cervid species, only the moose and the elk can attain larger sizes. Individuals belonging to western subspecies tend to be larger than those from the east, and females are smaller than males. In general, they attain a height of 102 to 160 cm (40 to 63 in) at the shoulder and may weigh as much as 546 kg (1,204 lb), though more typically 100 to 350 kg (220 to 770 lb). The appearance and the size of the sambar vary widely across its range, which has led to considerable taxonomic confusion in the past over 40 different scientific synonyms have been used for the species. The skeleton displayed at the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP in San Paulo, Brazil

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