Noble deer

A noble deer is a cloven-hoofed animal. Its habitats are Asia and Europe, the temperate belt of North America and North Africa. This animal adapted also to the climatic conditions of New Zealand, Australia and South America. Kinds of deer, formerly considered independent, differ from each other in the length and structure of the body, the shape of the horns and the details of the color. They include marals, wapiti and wapiti. To the same family belong European, Kashmir and tugai deer.

As habitats, this mammal selects forests of taiga, subtropics, and also areas where broad-leaved trees predominate. There the noble deer adheres to glades and felling, rich in young growths and grasses. Depending on the habitat, adult animals differ in their body size. In the Siberian regions, the height of the withers of a deer can exceed one and a half meters, and the body weight can reach a weight of three hundred and forty kilograms. For subspecies living in Central Asia, other indicators are characteristic. Height withers - no more than eighty centimeters, body weight - up to one hundred kilograms. The deer is a noble and beautiful beast. His males are the owners of large branched horns. The summer color of the fur of these artiodactyl animals has no spots.

A noble deer gathers into groups. The usual composition of the herd is the female and her offspring, born within a few years. Males like to spend a lot of time alone. Sometimes they form small groups. In winter, individuals of noble deer can gather in herds, numbering more than two dozen animals. If the mammal's habitat is a flat terrain, then in summer they move through the territory, changing pastures. In winter, deer lead a sedentary lifestyle. They can be made only small movements on the sites, little covered with snow. Deer living in the highlands, in search of food migrate much more.

In the spring and early in the summer, the red deer feeds mainly on cereals. In his diet, he can include umbellate, legumes and comtemporal plants. In winter, the deer use basal leaves and perennial stems. Of the plants that serve as food for these animals, one can distinguish oak and ash, maple and beech, aspen and linden, willow and mountain ash, ivy and kalina. Deer eat their leaves, shoots and buds, as well as gnaw bark. If feed is not enough, in the diet of animals there are shoots and needles of juniper and pine, sometimes spruce and fir. Most of the species of reindeer graze in the morning and evening hours. In winter, due to the scarcity of feed, food takes place most of the day. Depending on the species, in March or April, as well as in January or in February, the deer shed their horns. In their place immediately begin to develop new ones.

Gon in animals occurs in the autumn period. At this time, the males make loud, hoarse sounds. Conflicts often arise between them, which are a demonstration of strength. A group of two or three females gather around the winning male. In rare cases, their number can reach twenty individuals. Pregnancy in females lasts for eight and a half months and ends with the birth of one, and in rare cases, two deer. For a long time the young are near their mother.

The main enemy of deer is the wolf. With a strong male predator can not cope. Therefore, adult wolves pursue their flocks with their own flock. Young animals can be attacked by many other predators. Step at deer during walking is large. Frightened, the animal goes to a gallop, jumping for a distance of five to six meters. Reindeers are remarkable swimmers. They are able to overcome a wide and stormy river. Organs of smell and hearing of animals are well developed. To prevent danger, deer always keep their muzzle towards the wind when they feed.