The Red Deer - Side View - Poitiers - France Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Family park, near Poitiers in France. The red deer Cervus elaphus is a big cervid of the moderate forests of Europe, North Africa, North America and Asia. His name is a pleonasm because `élaphe` already mean `deer` in Greek. This deer is one of the representatives the most known for this family of mammals. The species includes several subspecies, among which the deer of Bactriane, the deer of Turkestan, red deer of Turkestan or still red deer of Turkestan. The female is the hind and the young, up to the age of 6 months, the fawn. Then, from 6 months to 1 year, we call herit ` bichette ` if it is a female and `an a miserable wretch` if it is about a male. From 1 year to 2 years, the young male is called `brocket` with two big dry wood.