roe deer
Noun
Meaning
small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers
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Genetic disorders of horned or antlered animals A new possibility for the inspiration of the unicorn came in 2008 with the discovery of a roe deer in Italy with a single antler.
Other animals included “roe deer, bear, wolverine, lynx, wolf, Siberian marmot, fox, and sable” (Vasilevich, 626).
Korts said over 30,000 roe deer had been killed, and that the practice would be likely to continue for as long as road strikes were a common occurrence.
In Yorkshire in the United Kingdom roe deer hunting is especially popular due to the large antler produced there.
There are also great concentrations of deer (86,000; red deer and roe deer ), wild boar (32,000), elk (25,000), and red fox (13,000).
"I would like to hope that with intensive hunting, we can reduce the number of accidents involving roe deer in the future."