![]() Commonly three tines on each antler in adults. Antlers short, usually less than 30cm long, approximately vertical, forming lyre shape, almost round in cross section.Throat may have one or two paler areas.Rump patch white, inverted heart shape, with ‘tush’ of anal hair. Pale/olive grey, grey-brown or blackish.Head – black nose often has white rim above, sometimes extending onto muzzle.Rump patch cream to buff – although their colouring can be cream. More white fur goes down the throat, on the upper insides of the legs and under the tail.Only the males have antlers, which they shed in January to March, and grow out again in April or May. It has a band of white fur behind its nose, in circles around the eyes, and inside the ears. The fur of the white-tailed deer is a greyish colour in the winter then more red comes out during the summer. Reindeer: Arctic tundra and adjacent boreal forest Appearance ![]() ![]() Open moorland in Scotland Agricultural land if sufficient cover available. Roe Deer: Open deciduous, coniferous or mixed woodland. White Tailed Deer: Open deciduous, coniferous or mixed woodland and Agricultural land. White Tailed Deer: Odocoileus virginianus Celt and Norse) views on the Stag and Doe. However much of this mythic idea (or meme) can include all horned animals! So as this subject is so wide ranging I shall concentrate on 3 real species of Deer – the Roe Deer, Reindeer and White Tailed Deer and try to concentrate mostly upon the Northern Tribes (i.e. Much information comes from Dr Bobula Ida’s 1953 comparative myth essay on “The Great Stag, a Mesopotamian Divinity”. The Myths and Lore surrounding the Stag run across the world from Meandash, the mythic Saami Reindeer, all the way back to the earliest history from Sumerian of Dara-Mah ‘The Great Stag’. ![]()
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