Deer

Deer
Scientific classification
Reign :
: Chordata
:
: Artiodactyla
Cervidae
Rammed

Rammed rammed

Surface of current distribution

deer are , artiodactyles ruminants, of the family of deer tribe.

In fact deer tribe of average size (length 130-150 cm, height with the garrot 110 cm) can reach 100 kg. They carry wood dishes, have a dress in general mottled of white (but sometimes brown or black) and their escutcheon (spot on the glutei) is black and white. The female, called floor, does not have wood.

They are originating in the east of the Mediterranean basin and inNorth Africa but were established as of antiquity in all the Mediterranean circumference. The deer is for a very long time an animal of ornament. The large one of the current wild populations is in and results from lâchers carried out with .

traditional of the deer is clear of . The males are solitary and join the females only at the time of the rut which takes place in October-November. Gestation is 8 months. Wood reach their greater development in September and fall in May.

A close species (Rammed mesopotamica) a little larger insulated itself in the forests of au sud de l ' and in Iraq.

In the Middle East the deer were an important source of meat for civilizations of Kebaran (17 000 - 10 000 before JC) whereas with Natufien, withepipaleolithic, they had regressed already considerably.


 

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