Fallow deer; Gamo

Description:

Ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. Chestnut coat with white mottles that are most pronounced in summer with a much darker, unspotted coat in the winter. Light-coloured area around the tail, edged with black. Tail is light with a black stripe. The male fallow deer is known as a buck, the female is a doe, and the young a fawn. Only bucks have antlers, which are broad and shovel-shaped (palmate) from three years. In the first two years the antler is a single spike. They are grazing animals; their preferred habitat is mixed woodland and open grassland. The fallow deer is a Eurasian deer that was a native to most of Europe during the last Interglacial. In the Holocene, the distribution was restricted to the Middle East and possibly also parts of the Mediterranean region. The fallow deer was spread across central Europe by the Romans.

Habitat:

Spotted at mediterranean forest at Monte del Pardo, Madrid.