Deer of Great Britain
There are six species of deer living wild in Great Britain today: the red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, sika deer, Reeves's muntjac, and the Chinese water deer.[1] Of those, red and roe deer are native and have lived in the isles throughout the Holocene. Fallow has been reintroduced twice, by the Romans and the Normans, after it died out in the last ice age. The other three are escaped or released alien species.
Native deer species
Non-native introduced species
Reintroduced species
- Eurasian elk - (on private reserves)
- Reindeer - (on private reserves)
Extinct species
Taxonomy
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Eutheria
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Pecora
Family: Cervidae
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References
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