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fallow deer

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fallow deer

One of two species of deer. Fallow deer are characterized by the expansion of the upper part of their antlers in palmate form. Usually they stand about 1 m/3.3 ft high, and have small heads, large ears, and rather long tails. In colour they are fawn, with a number of large white spots, or they may be yellowish-brown or, more rarely, dark brown.

The commonest species Dama dama is a native of North Africa and the countries bordering the Mediterranean, but was introduced into Britain at an early period. D. mesopotamica is a native of the mountains of Iran.

Classification

The fallow deer is in genus Dama in the Cervidae family of the mammalian order Artiodactyla.



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There had they built huts of bark and branches of trees, and made couches of sweet rushes spread over with skins of fallow deer.
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In a few moments a colt was seen gliding, like a fallow deer, among the straight trunks of the pines; and, in another instant, the person of the ungainly man, described in the preceding chapter, came into view, with as much rapidity as he could excite his meager beast to endure without coming to an open rupture.
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