Every month, visitors to our museum choose an exhibit that made the greatest impression on them. The exhibit they chose for March was Fallow Deer.

The fallow deer is a ruminant mammal of the deer family. Its scientific name is Dama dama.

It lives mainly in Rhodes, where it is a symbol of the island, but we find it in the Parnitha National Park and in Lemnos, as well as in areas of Europe, Asia and Africa.

Its population in Rhodes has only a wild phenotype, without melanistic, leucistic or hypopigmented, blond individuals, which means that it differs genetically from other populations of the species and for this reason it is considered in urgent need of conservation.

The horns, which are only found in males, are round at the roots and widen at the tips. They differ from the horns of all other deer in that they are palmate. Their shape changes with age. Its horns, fall off every year in May and grow back in September. Each year, a tip is added to the new horns at their widest part.

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