Autumn Red Deer Stag Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a Red Deer Stag on visit to the Scottish Highlands. Red deer are Scotland’s largest surviving native wild land mammal. Red deer are a distinctive rusty red colour in summer turning to a brown winter coat. They have a short tail and a pale rump patch. Males are called stags and have antlers up to a metre long. These branch like horns drop off in the spring and are grown again in the summer ready for the autumn rut, or breeding season. Stags live in small wandering groups, except during the rut when they become solitary and fight other stags for the control of a hind herd. Red deer are a native species having migrated to Britain from Europe 11,000 years ago.

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