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Roe Deer(m)
Capreolus capreolus.
Head to body length: 95-135cm.
Shoulder height: male 64-67cm; female 63-67cm.
Weight: 16-35kg at birth: 1, 3 - 2,3kg.
Food: browser eating bramble, rose, herbs, young leaves of trees, conifers and meechmarst, acorns and fungi in the autumn.

Roe Buck Elsted Common Surrey

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Fallow Deer
Dama dama
Introduced.
Ashdown Forest East Sussex.
Head to body length: 130-170cm.
Shoulder height: 85-110cm.
Weight: buck 46-80kg; doe 53-52kg; at birth mean: 4.5kg.
Food: grazers eating grasses, rushes, young leaves, acorns, beechmast and berries.

Fallow Deer

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Red Deer (m)
Cervus elaphus.
Head to body length: 165-260cm.
Male c.200cm; female c. 180cm.
Weight: males up to 255kg; females 150kg.
These figures can vary with habitat and captive animals attain greater sizes.
Food: Tree shots, bark, grasses, sedges, heather, conifers and holly.

Red Deer Stag grazes under an Oak Tree

  Fallow Deer                                                                    Dama dama.

Fallow Deer alert to danger Ashdown Forest

 

 

 

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 Sciurus carolinensis                  

 

Red Fox
Vulpes vulpes.
Head to body length UK average: male 67cm, female 63cm. Weight: male 6.7 kg; female 5.4kg; at birth 100g.
The Red Fox is the most wide spread carnivore in the world, occurring throughout the entire northern hemisphere. It has also been introduced to Australia.
Food opportunistic: small mammals, birds, insects, eggs, worms, carrion, fruit, and house hold scraps. Daily food requirements around 500g (120kcal). Stores food in time of plenty.

 

 

Red Fox prowling

 

Roe Deer
Capreolus capreolus
Tilgate Forest West Sussex.

 

Roe Deer through the dappled sunlight Tilgate Forest

Wood Mouse
Aopdemus sylvaticus.

Wood Mouse

Roe Deer (f)
Capreolus capreolus
Farmland near Gatwick Airport.

Roe Deer

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