Roe deer

Description

The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus,Linnaeus,1758) is a ungulate that lives in Europe and Asia.It has short antlers,usually with 3 tips per side in adult subjects.The body is of a color between red and brown,the snout towards gray;it is very fast and lives on highlands and mountains.The roe deer is a small deer with a fawn coat in summer.The throat,the ventral parts and the perianal region,called an anal mirror,are white.The tail is very short and does not emerge from the hair,even if in the female there is a tuft of hair that covers the vulva.The male has small stages (this term indicates the horns of the cervids) with only three points;these fall each year (from October to December) and grow back at the end of winter.The boxes are made of a cartilaginous substance and,once fallen,they are prey to other animals that feed on it.Therefore it is very rare to find stages fallen into roe deer,which is simpler in the other two Cervidae present in Italy ( red deer and fallow deer)).A roe deer is between 90 and 130 cm long,with a shoulder between 55 and 77 cm high.It weighs between 10 and 27 kg.