DEER
Mammal     -      Vertebrate     -     Herbivore 

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A STAG

MALE CARIBOU DEER (REINDEER)

Deer ...

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• Eat grass, leaves, berries, acorns, mushrooms, wild fruit, sapling, shoots and crops
  
• Male deer grow new antlers each year
  
• Can swim extremely well and jump high
  
• Fawns are born with fur covered in white spots
  
• Caribou (Reindeer) are the only species in which the female has antlers
  
• Antlers are different for every deer 
  
• Raise their tails as a warning sign to others
  
• Can live for about 10 years in the wild
  
• Fighting male deer can lock antlers and starve to death
• Reindeer like the taste of bananas
• Reindeers hair is hollow inside, like a tube
• Reindeer have golden eyes in the summer and blue eyes in the winter

There are 45 species of deer.

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Male  ........................................  Buck. Bull. Hart. Stag
Female  ....................................  Cow.  Doe.  Roe. Hind
Young  ......................................  Fawn

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SIMILES

1. As fast as a deer
   
2. As gentle as a fawn
3. Like a deer caught in the headlights

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IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS

1. A stag party
   

SITKA BLACK-TAILED FAWNS

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

Deer in general

• A bevy of deer
• A bunch of deer 
• A gang of deer  
• A herd of deer
• A leash of deer
• A mob of deer
• A parcel of deer
• A rangale of deer

​Bucks

• A brace of bucks
• A clash of bucks

Caribou

• A herd of caribou

Doe - Hind

• A bevy of doe
• A parcel of hinds

Elk

1. A gang of elk 
2. A herd of elk

Reindeer

1. A herd of reindeer

Roe Deer

1. A bevy of roe deer

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