The European Fallow Deer (Dama dama). No your not going color blind, these beauties were created to blend in perfectly to the snowy semi wooded grasslands. Bone evidence found in caves shows that the Palaeolithic cultures 300,000 years ago hunted and used the entire fallow deer for survival. Being an important meat source for humans for hundreds of thousands of years, fallow deer were hunted to near extinction in most of Europe by the late 1800's. The last remaining natural herds of fallow were

Did you know that fallow deer have molars, canines and incisors in the back of the mouth which are used for chewing, but only have small teeth in the front of the bottom jaw and no teeth at all in the front of the top jaw? As you can see from the video, when they eat bark they put the branch at the back of the mouth to chew and then remove the bark from the branch with the small teeth at the front of the mouth before eating. Fascinating! #WildwoodTrust #AnimalFacts | Wildwood Kent