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Fallow
Deer
(Dama dama)
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- Introduced
by the Normans
- Colours
range from white to pitch black.
- Thier
summer coat is chestnut with white/cream spots.
- The
Buck grows a palmate set of antlers each year.
- Half
the year they live in small mixed herds, then in seperate
buck and doe herds the rest.
- Found
throughout the UK including Wollaton Park in Nottinghamshire
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Roe
Deer
(Capreolus capreolus)
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- The
roe can be traced back to the pre-ice age
- Their
summer coat is a foxy red and in winter it turns a greyish
colour
- The
buck is very territorial, and also co-habits with the same
doe for many years
- Found
throughout Scotland, Northern England, and most of the Southern
Counties
- No
roe have been found in the midlands, but you never know.
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Chinese
Water Deer
(Hydropotes inermes)
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- Both
the roe and the buck are roughly the same height
- Both
have a uniform sandy-chestnut colour
- Most
of the year the bucks prefer solitude
- They
prefer marshland area and can be found on the Cambridge
Fens.
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Japanese
Sika Deer
(Cervus nippon
nippon)
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- Introduced
to Britain in the 2nd half of the 19C.
- Sika
deer have flanks of a warm brown with yellowish white spots
during summer
- A black
dorsal line extends down the tail
- Sika
are capable of Hybridisation with red deer
- Found
in the New Forest
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the deer species in
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