What is the difference between roe deer and fallow deer

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Only fill in if you are not human. Red Deer Cervus elaphus The largest deer species in the UK is the red deer, with the stags males measuring up to cm in length, and the hinds females up to cm. Roe deer by Ron Mitchell Fallow Deer Dama dama The fallow deer is non-native but very well established in the UK as they were introduced by the Normans in the 11th century in private collections. Left — red deer antler Right- Fallow deer antler When visiting Loch of the Lowes you are most likely to see roe and fallow deer.

Deer - Loch of the Lowes - Mammals - Wildlife. Related tags Deer , Loch of the Lowes , Mammals , wildlife. You might also be interested in …. During the summer, red deer migrate to higher elevations where food supplies are greater for the calving season. Red deer are active both day and night, however, activity peaks at dawn and dusk. The gestation period for the female Red deer is 9 months 33 — 34 weeks. A single calf is born very rarely twins in May or June and lies hidden in the undergrowth, well camouflaged.

The calf is weaned after 9 — 12 months and reaches sexual maturity after one and a half years. The life span of a red deer is 25 years. Red deer are not considered to be endangered in the UK, and in some areas, they are over-populated and may be culled.

Other red deer subspecies are listed on the Red List. Shous C. Corsican red deer C. Roe deer Capreolus capreolus , became extinct in most of England during the 18th century, however, during the 19th century they were reintroduced.

Before they were treated as vermin due to the damage they cause to the forestry industry. Roe deer are found throughout Europe, but they are absent from Ireland, much of Portugal, Greece and large parts of England and Wales. They also inhabit Asia. Sightings of Roe deer have become more common in back gardens in outer suburbs.

One of the latest sightings of Roe deer was in a back garden in Brentwood, Essex. The Roe Deer is quite a small deer, with a body length of 95 — centimetres 3. The Roe Deer has rather short, erect antlers and a reddish body with a grey face. Its hide is golden red in summer, darkening to brown or even black in winter, with lighter undersides and a white rump patch.

The Roe Deers tail is very short 2 — 3 centimetres 0. Only the males have antlers, which are lost during winter, but which re-grow in time for the mating season. The first and second set of antlers are unbranched and short 5 — 12 centimetres 2 — 4. When the males antlers begin to regrow, they are covered in a thin layer of velvet-like fur which disappears later, after the hairs blood supply is lost.

Males may speed up the process by rubbing their antlers on trees, so that their antlers are hard and stiff for the duels during the mating season.

Roe Deer are the only type of deer that can regrow their antlers during winter. When alarmed, a Roe deer will bark a sound much like a dog and flash out its white rump patch. Rump patches differ between male and female, with the white rump patches heart-shaped on females and kidney-shaped on males.

The Roe Deer is primarily crepuscular animals that are primarily active during twilight, at dawn and at dusk. Roe deer are very quick and graceful, living in woods, although it may venture to grasslands and sparse forests.

They prefer woodland, particularly with open patches of ground and with access to the edges of fields. Roe deer feed mainly on grass, leaves, berries and young shoots. It particularly likes very young, tender grass with a high moisture content such as grass that has received rain the day before.

Roe deer will not generally venture in to a field that either has livestock in it such as sheep and cattle, this is because the livestock will make the grass very unclean. Both male and female roe deer are solitary and are highly territorial, with clearly defined boundaries.

Both male and female Roe deer scent mark. In County Durham, by far the most common deer species we capture on our camera traps is the roe deer. However, as MammalWeb starts to collect images from new camera trap sites across the country, you may come across some different deer species whilst spotting. Telling the difference between deer species can sometimes be tricky, so we've summarised some key facts for all six species in the graphic below.

When classifying camera trap photos here are some key things you can look for to help you decide which deer species it is. Many parks were broken up during the Civil War and again during the two World Wars.

The fallow deer range and numbers have increased substantially since Fallow are a herding species and exhibit extreme flexibility in most aspects of their social organisation, group size is influenced by disturbance, habitat, and season.

In high-density populations in large woodlands, males live in separate groups to the females and young, except during the autumn rut. In lower-density populations in agricultural areas, however, mixed-sex groups may regularly occur throughout the winter.

Fallow have a variety of mating systems ranging from non-territorial defence of harems to the development of clusters of small mating territories or "leks". Fallow generally produce single fawns on an annual basis. At least seven species of muntjac are known, with a natural distribution from Pakistan to Java and north to mainland China.

Two species have been introduced to Britain in the past:. The larger Indian muntjac was brought to Woburn Park in about After a short time, it was removed from the park but a small population survived in the wild until Records of small colonies outside the main areas suggest human intervention. The muntjac is regarded as an introduced non-native species and its release into the wild is prohibited under Section 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act Owing to their subtropical origin, muntjac are not seasonal breeders.

They produce single fawns every seven months, gestation is days and lactation is six to eight weeks. Mating follows quickly after parturition. Muntjac are territorial and the social unit is a family group, with young adults being driven off before the arrival of the next fawn.