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Studley Royal Stag 6
(European Fallor Deer)
Photo from Paul Turner
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Mesopotamean Fallow Deer Photo from: Volker Wurst |
It exists in North Africa. The males and females are seen
together only in summer when the mating season approaches, which is in October.
Gestation takes 33 weeks. Normally, the female has one fawn, rarely two.
Dama mesopotamica, another species in Persia, is more
corpulent and its coloring is brighter than the species in Europe. It lives in
the Laristan Mountains in Iran. This fact, of course, opened the doors for the fallow
deer recipes that were taken to Al-Andalus from Persia.
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Deer Squabble Photo from: Greg Holmes |
Villena explained that the meat should be carved in the same
fashion as ox meat. Avenzoar said the meat was hot and dry and had a smoother
substance then the common deer.
The European Fallow deer are not an endangered species. They are a
protected game species throughout most of their range. They have been kept in
game parks for hunting purposes almost from the time of the Romans. The
Mesopotamian Fallow deer are considered endangered. See buey.
[Benavides-Barajas. 1995:220; Espasa. 1988:25:FUI:647-648; Ibn Zuhr/García Sánchez. 1992:58; Villena/Calero. 2002:22b:31a; and Webster’s New Geographical Dict. 1984:651]
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