Tour Scotland Photograph Red Deer North Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of Red Deer in North Fife, Scotland. Red deer are a native species having migrated to Britain from Europe 11,000 years ago. They were used extensively by Mesolithic man as a source of food, skins and tools, bones and antlers. However, the development of agriculture by Neolithic man cleared swathes of forest to make way for fields and this loss of forest encouraged the decline of red deer populations, which became confined to the Scottish Highlands, south west England and a few other small, scattered populations.



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