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When elephants died out during the Paleolithic era some 400,000 years ago, ancient residents in what is modern-day Israel created special stone tools to kill and process fallow deer to eat.

From helping them find mates to bettering their ability to camouflage, marks on animals and birds serve various purposes.

Brought to the UK by the Normans for hunting, fallow deer are now the most widespread deer in the UK and can be seen in many parks and forests in Wales. Fallow deer are smaller than red deer and ...

Frustrated farmers in Woodbridge and Halesworth in Suffolk are seeing crops destroyed after an apparent surge in deer numbers in some pockets.

That changed in 2009, when four species — chital, rusa, red and fallow deer — were declared pests. The state government's latest feral deer management strategy warns herds are growing in both ...