Only two of our deer species are 'native' – four other species were introduced to the UK by human beings. "And it is people who have destroyed the natural predators of deer. A kinder and more ...

Common species including robin ... Bringing back wolves, lynx and bears to the UK would not just reduce the deer population by directly killing them, Dr Sandom explains. Predators create a ...

If trees can’t grow, they can’t store carbon. Fallow deer (Dama dama) are a well-loved species often seen in UK parks. As “intermediate grazers” they eat large quantities of fibrous plant ...

The earliest fossil record of the giant deer is from 400,000 years ago and the last fossil record is from 8,000 years ago. It is thought the species probably slowly died out due to a changing climate.

Think you know your UK wildlife geography ... 43 per cent admitted they wouldn't be able to differentiate any type of deer species if they saw them in the wild or in a picture.

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, more than 15,000 years ago. The ...