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A deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. A number of broadly similar animals from related families within the order Artiodactyla are often also called deer. Depending on their species, male deer are called stags, harts, bucks or bulls, and females are called hinds, does or cows. Young deer are called fawns or calves. A group of deer is commonly called a herd. Hart, from Old English heorot �deer�, is a term for a stag, particularly a Red Deer stag past its fifth year. It is not commonly used, but Shakespeare makes several references, punning the sound alike hart and heart for example in Twelfth Night. The White Hart and The Red Hart are common English pub names, and the county Hertfordshire is named after them. The history of the word deer is quite interesting in that it was originally quite broad in meaning and came to be specialized. This general sense gave way to the modern sense by the end of the Middle English period, around 1500. The German word tier and the Dutch word dier, cognates of English deer, still have the general sense of animal. The adjective of relation pertaining to deer is cervine.