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This deer is slightly smaller than other Western European red deer, an example of insular dwarfism. In summer, the coat is lighter in colour with a distinct border to the lighter patch on the rump. The rest of the colour is dark reddish brown with a greyer face and neck. The legs are blackish brown. In winter the animal grows long hair on the neck.
Six species of deer are living wild in Great Britain: [1] Scottish red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, sika deer, Reeves's muntjac, and Chinese water deer. [2] Of those, Scottish red and roe deer are native and have lived in the isles throughout the Holocene. Fallow deer have been reintroduced twice, by the Romans and the Normans, after dying out ...
The Muckle Hart of Benmore [a] was the name given to a red deer stag that was stalked (hunted) by the 19th-century naturalist and hunter Charles William George St John. [1] In his book Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands, he described the continuous hunt of the stag for six days and five nights, culminating in its dramatic demise on 1 October 1833. [2]
Articles related to the red deer (Cervus elaphus) and its subspecies. It is one of the largest deer species. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of western Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa; being the only living species of deer to inhabit Africa.
Scottish red deer: C. e. scoticus: England, Scotland and Ireland: This deer is slightly smaller than red deer in Western Europe and its coat is lighter in colour, with a distinct border to the lighter patch on the rump. Spanish red deer: C. e. hispanicus [36] Iberian Peninsula: Smaller than the common red deer and more greyish in colour Mesola ...
Family: Cervidae (deer) Roe deer, Capreolus capreolus LC [63] Siberian roe deer, Capreolus pygargus LC, [64] introduced, extirpated [65] [66] Red deer, Cervus elaphus LC [67] Scottish red deer, C. e. scoticus; Sika deer, Cervus nippon LC introduced [68] European fallow deer, Dama dama LC introduced [69] Water deer, Hydropotes inermis VU ...
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