lat.: Dama dama

FALLOW DEER, medium-size deer, Dama dama, characterized by fallow (pale yellow) color and by palmate antlers lacking a bay antler, or second spike. The fallow deer, found wild in western Asia and southern Europe, is about 1 m (about 3 ft) high at the shoulders,and spotted white in summer. A larger, brighter species, D.mesopotamica, found in Iran and northern Africa, may be semidomesticated, and in Great Britain has often been kept in private parks.

The bucks and does live apart until the mating season, which is usually in October; in June the female does usually bear one fawn, but occasionally two or three. In prehistoric times a huge deer with antlers of the fallow-deer type existed in Ireland, England, northern and central Europe, and western Asia.

Diet
Herbs, grass, leaves, bark, seeds.

Habitat
Open mixed forests and parks with meadows and agricultural land.

Area
The fallow deer is found wild in western Asia and southern Europe.

Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Argentina, Russia, Hungary, Rumania, Lithunia, Mexico, Turkey, Slowenia, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Poland