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A lone Sambhar deer grazing on among thick cane brakes in Kaziranga National park, Assam, India. The lovely sound of Barbets, parakeets and bulbuls in the background give one a real forest feeling! A lone wild water buffalo at a beel in Kaziranga, Assam. The sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian Subcontinent, southern China and Southeast Asia. Although it primarily refers to R. unicolor, the name "sambar" is also sometimes used to refer to the Philippine deer (called the Philippine sambar) and the rusa deer (called the Sunda sambar). The name is also spelled sambur, or sambhur.The appearance and the size of sambar vary widely across their range, which has led to considerable taxonomic confusion in the past; over forty different scientific synonyms have been used for t