What does fallow deer mean: let’s discover together the meaning of the term and all the characteristics of this cute animal.Many people melt when faced with a baby deer (which we improperly call Bambi ): but what breed does this animal actually belong to?
Meaning of deer
With the masculine noun daino , in zoology we define an artiodactyl mammal belonging to the Cervidae family, also known by the archaic term damma or dama. Having disappeared from Europe after the last glaciation, the fallow deer has been reintroduced several times in the Old Continent, giving rise to a rather large population. The appearance of the fallow deer is typical of the Cervidae, even if slightly shorter and stockier than the red deer.
Difference between fallow deer, red deer and roe deer
It is also possible to distinguish the species from deer and roe deer by the presence of an ocellated coat and an anchor-shaped spot on the rump. Among the deer, the fallow deer’s antlers (present only in males and renewed every year) are also the only palmate ones. The color of the coat varies depending on the season: dark gray during the winter and reddish with white spots in the summer. As for size, fallow deer reach a shoulder height of about one meter and a length of 150 cm. The males, larger and more robust than the females, weigh an average of 60 kg and have a well-developed Adam’s apple. The fallow deer also adapts very quickly to different types of habitat and diet and has an average lifespan of 20/25 years.
Its meat is quite valuable, while the tanned skin of this animal, particularly soft, is used to make leather goods and clothing, or for domestic and technical uses, such as completing the polishing of crystal or drying shiny surfaces, including windows and car bodywork.
Fallow deer as a color
With the term deer, as women know well, we also mean a color, widely used to indicate a specific shade of stockings/tights.
It is a shade of brown, more or less light, tending towards a flesh/beige color.
