麋鹿回家的故事 A Home Coming Story of Milu Deer

on the coastal wetlands by the Yellow Sea in

eastern China

you'll notice a strange looking deer walking around

it has a hair shaped like a horse

giant Antlers like a deer

hooves like a cow

and a tail of a donkey

these are meal dear as species native to China

but it disappeared from China for nearly 100 years

the fact that they have now returned to China

is the result of a remarkable

sentry old animal Protection collaboration

between 2 countries

archaeological studies have found that the miludia

were once common in eastern China

but by the 19th century

their numbers had dropped drastically

most of the Milo

deer were raised in the

emperor's hunting grounds outside Beijing

the Europeans who came to China at the time

believed the species to be very rare

and many were taken back to Europe

when the emperor's hunting grounds were destroyed

by heavy flooding

the Milo deer were lost

never to be seen in the area again

luckily there were the melu deer

that had been shipped to foreign countries

a duke in Britain

had given shelter to 18 of these fortunate Meludere

and they were well taken care of

by the mid 19 80s

the Chinese government hoped

the species could be restored in China

once again

a suggestion supported by the duke's descendants

in 1986

39 of the Milu deer were flown to China from Britain

to their ancestral home in Da

Fun County in Jungsu Province

after 2 decades

the melu deer population in China

has increased to over 5 000

with nearly 1350 roaming in the wild

today there is no longer any fears for their survival

in their homeland