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This drawing made by a 17th-century Icelander shows the four stags on the World Tree. Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The ...
The autumn/winter coats of most subspecies are most distinct. The Caspian red deer's winter coat is greyer and has a larger and more distinguished light rump-patch (like wapiti and some central Asian red deer) compared with the Western European red deer, which has more of a greyish-brown coat with a darker yellowish rump patch in the winter.
Roe deer in a grassland area Young roe deer Roe deer antler Moulting roe buck with freshly rubbed antlers. The roe deer is a relatively small deer, with a body length of 95–135 cm (3 ft 1 in – 4 ft 5 in) throughout its range, and a shoulder height of 63–67 cm (2 ft 1 in – 2 ft 2 in), and a weight of 15–35 kg (35–75 lb). [30]
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.
Within the red deer species group, some sources have recommended the Central Asian red deer (Cervus hanglu) should be treated as a species. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] If the Central Asian red deer (from the Caspian Sea to western China ) is recognized as a species, it includes the Yarkand deer and Bactrian deer (the two may be synonymous ), but it could ...
Grey red-backed vole, Myodes rufocanus LC; Martino's Dinaric vole, Dinaromys bogdanovi VU and: [n 1] Western Dinaric vole, Dinaromys longipedis [3] (Balkans) European water vole, Arvicola amphibius and: [n 1] Italian water vole, Arvicola italicus [2] (Italy, Switzerland) Montane water vole, Arvicola monticola, A. scherman [n 2] LC
Roe deer are most closely related to the water deer, and, counterintuitively, the three species in this group, called the Capreolini, are most closely related to moose. [9] Although roe deer were once classified as belonging to the Cervinae subfamily, they are now classified as part of the Odocoileinae, which includes the deer from the New ...
Roe deer, Capreolus capreolus (common) White-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus (common/introduced from North America) Fallow deer, Dama dama (uncommon/introduced from other parts of Europe) Red deer, Cervus elaphus (very rare/became extinct but recently spreading from Sweden) Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus (common) Moose, Alces alces (common)