Lupin the werewolf and James the stag

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Steph wrote:
> Alright, this might be the teenager in me and it probably is gonna 
> look bad, 
> but what excatly is a stag? How is it different from a horse? No one 
>in my 
> house seems to know the answer. I'm very curious. I want to be the 
>mustang 
> in Bill Crawfords and get a personalized license plate and name it 
> Prongs...I already know that my future american eskimo dog is gonna 
> be Prongs... :) So, what is a stag?
 

Hope this hasn't been answered already.

The popular English terminology associated with the sexes of various 
deer is an outgrowth of their importance as game: female deer are 
usually called does, but the female of the European red deer is a 
hind, and of the moose or elk a cow; males generally are called bucks, 
but the male of the red deer is a stag, or, especially when mature, a 
hart, and of the moose or elk a bull. Several names are used for the 
fawns of various ages--e.g., yearling, knobber, brocket, staggard 
(especially applied to male red deer). Fawns of moose or elk are 
called calves.

Source: www.britannica.com

~mystril