Dama mesopotamica

IUCN

Alias：Dama mesopotamica,Mesopotamian Fallow Deer、Persian Fallow Deer,Mesopotamian fallow deer, Mesopotamian deer

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Dama mesopotamica
Aliases：Dama mesopotamica,Mesopotamian Fallow Deer、Persian Fallow Deer,Mesopotamian fallow deer, Mesopotamian deer
Outline：Ungulata
Family：Artiodactyls Cervidae Fallen Deer

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Feature

The Persian fallow deer is larger than the fallow deer, and has larger antlers, but less palmate.

Details

The scientific name of the Persian fallow deer is Dama mesopotamica, and its foreign names are Mesopotamian Fallow Deer and Persian Fallow Deer. They were introduced to Cyprus in the Neolithic Age. They are found in many places, including Kirokitia. There are Greek records in 200 that they swam across the Mediterranean Sea with their heads on their backs, from Lebanon and Mount Carmel to Cyprus. The deer in Epirus, Greece also reached Corfu in this way. Red deer also cross the ocean during the migration season. But fallow deer do not have this behavior. They like to live in groups, feed on grass, twigs and leaves, and are particularly good at running.

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The Persian fallow deer was thought to be extinct in 1951, but a small population was later found again in Khuzestan Province.

The Persian fallow deer is close to extinction, with only 650 individuals remaining in Khuzestan and Mazandaran provinces of Iran and on islands in Lake Urmia. They were previously found from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Cyrenaica and Cyprus. They prefer to live in large woodlands. The remaining population may suffer from inbreeding and lack of genetic diversity.

Since 1996, the Persian fallow deer has been gradually reintroduced from Carmel to the wild in northern Israel, with more than 650 individuals now living in Galilee, Mount Carmel and the Valley of Sorek.

Listed in the 2008 Red List of Threatened Species of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) ver 3.1 - Endangered (EN).

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Location

The Persian fallow deer is found in Khuzestan and Mazandaran provinces of Iran and on the islands of Lake Urmia.
Extinct in: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey; reintroduced in: Israel.
The Persian fallow deer prefers to live in large woodlands.

Form

The fur is yellowish brown with white stripes, the upper part of the horns is flat or palm-shaped, the tail is slightly long, and the temperament is gentle. The Persian fallow deer is larger than the fallow deer, and the antlers are also larger, but less palm-shaped. It generally lives in the forests of the Mediterranean in southern Europe. Its fur is brown with white spots in the summer, and turns gray with black stripes in the winter. The antlers on its head are generally 60 cm long.