Fallow deer

Antler is the name of the bony material that makes up a deciduous pair of protrusions shed every year known as "antlers" on the heads of animals of the deer family, for example, reindeer, elk, and fallow deer. Antler has a composition similar to that of horn. Like bone, antler is made up of a hard and compact outer layer surrounding a core of spongy tissue. Since it is regularly shed from the body of the animal, it differs morphologically from horn, which is not shed (O Connor et al. 1987). 

Epe, C., Bienioschek, S., Rehbein, S. and Schnieder, T. (1995) Comparative RAPD-PCR analysis of lungworms (Dictyocaulidae) from fallow deer, cattle, sheep and horses. Journal of Veterinary Medicine B 42, 187-191. 

Epe C., von Samson-Himmelstjema, G. and Schnieder, T. (1997) Differences in a ribosomal DNA sequence of lungworm species (Nematoda Dictyocaulidae) from fallow deer, catde, sheep and donkeys. Research in Veterinary Science 62,... 

Sr Fallow deer, Dama sp. bone vs. muscle 6 AW vs. 0.6 AW 54... 

Remarkable is the exclusive presence of fallow deer in locality no. 3, in contrast to the red deer in locality no. 9only some 400 m distant this phenomenon undoubtedly points to slight differences in age. 

I have analysed various elements of the fauna elsewhere (Janossy, 1969a) the presence of a small hyaena and the fallow deer suggest that this animal assemblage also belongs to the Suttdian substage. 

Rautio P, Kesti K, Bergvall UA, Tuomi J, Leimar O (2008) Spatial scales of foraging in fallow deer Implications for associational effects in plant defences. Acta Oecol 34 12-20... 

FIGURE 7.4 iojPDE amplicon - iojPDE LightCycler system.The position of primers is marked with arrows, the position of prohes with frames. The differences to the roe and fallow deer sequences are marked in grey, the only difference to the roe deer sequence is framed and the only difference to fallow deer is underlined. 

FIGURE 7.5 Melting curve analysis DNA of cattle, fallow deer, red deer, and roe deer using the bosPDE LightCycler system. (See insert for color representation.)... 

For years, there has been a natural curiosity as to the morphological and physiological characteristics of antler growth. Since phosphoms is an important constituent of the skull and antler, the mineral metabolism of phosphorus is of interest. Rerabeck and Bubenik (1963) studied this mineral using with red deer (C rvM5 elaphus), fallow deer (Cervus dama dama), and roebuck (Capreolus... 

Significantly higher specific activity of caesium was detected in the meat of game (in 1986, depending on surface contamination of the territory, the observed values for roe deer meat were 120-600 Bq/kg and 170-660 Bq/kg for deer meat). Contamination of wild Hfe by radionuclides decreases in the order deers > roe deers and fallow deers > mouflons > wild boars (wild pigs) > hares. 

Reby, D., Joachim, J., Lauga, J., Lek, S. and Aulagnier, S. (1998b) Individuahty in the groans of fallow deer (Dama dama) bucks. Journal of the Zoological Society of London, 245 79-84. 

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