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During rutting season males often rub their antlers or horns on trees or shrubs, fight with each other, wallow in mud or dust, self-anoint and herd estrus females together. These displays make the male conspicuous and aids in mate selection.

$The fallow deer (Dama dama) is a species of ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. It is native to Europe, but has been introduced around the world.\nHistory:\nThe fallow deer was native to most of Europe during the last interglacial. In the Pleistocene (the last ice age) the distribution was restricted to the Middle East and refugia in parts of the Mediterranean Basin: Sicily, Anatolia and the Balkan. Pleistocene fallow deer were larger, extant populations have evolved into smaller animals. Humans began to expand the distribution of this deer in the last two millennia by introducing it throughout Europe and further afield. In the Levant, fallow deer were an important source of meat in Palaeolithic cultures (420,000–200,000 BCE), as is shown by bones, also used for conserving the marrow to be eaten weeks after the kill, found in the Qesem cave, but the species appears to have disappeared from the southern Levant in the following Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture, 13,000–7,500 BCE, although gazelle and especially roe deer proliferated, perhaps because of climate change (increased aridity and the decrease of wooded areas), in combination with changing land use patterns and hunting pressure. At the same time the taxon persisted in the north in the Galilee region and the north of the West Bank (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made at a Nature Reserve in North Holland (the Netherlands).$

$Deer herds have played a major role in Richmond Park’s history and have shaped the landscape too. Red deer are the largest land mammal native to the British Isles and in summer their coats are glossy red.\n\nAll male deer have antlers which start growing in the spring and are shed each year, usually at the end of winter.$

A vertical shot of the Red deer in the misty forest. Cervus elaphus.

Portrait of a stag in a park, cloudy day in autumn (Austria)

Fallow deer with mighty antlers lying in the sunny meadow

Deer (Capreolus capreolus) in autumn sunlight with black background

Male red deer, Cervus elaphus, posing in front of a bronze age burial mound and old oak trees in a large public park called Dyrehaven north of Copenhagen. The park is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site called The Kings North Zealand

In 2018 a number of stags were brought from Balmoral to Windsor Great Park to diversify the bloodline.

Mannelijk Edelhert grazend in de bossen van het kroondomein Het Loo

Red deer stag (Cervus elaphus). High-stepping, nose in the air, a stag returns to his 'harem' of females...having just lost one of their number to a neighbouring male. Richmond Park, Surrey, England.

Stag in field near Glenfinnan Viaduct in the Scottish Highlands.

Red deer in its natural habitat in Denmark

A fallow buck stands watching me with his antlers on display

Just a few weeks before rutting starts in earnest, and this mature male red deer stag ( Cervus elaphus ) is already out to impress, standing like a stag at bay. He's not quite ready to take up cudgels yet, however – minutes later he was feeding together with two other mature males, both of whom will surely be bitter rivals in a month's time. Examples of red deer rutting action: .

Red deer stag against a green background

Red deer in Caledonian forest [Cervus elaphus]

A Fallow Deer (Dama dama) in a meadow in Scotland during summer

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