Fallow Deer

High school (ages 12+)
Animals & Nature

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/fallow-deer

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the scientific name?Dama dama
2. What is the native range?Mediterranean region and Western Asia; widely introduced across the globe
3. What makes Fallow Deer special?Fallow Deer have big, hand‑shaped antlers that grow each year. The antlers help males fight and show how healthy they are.
4. Where can I see Fallow Deer?They live in the Mediterranean and Western Asia, and humans moved them to almost every continent except Antarctica.

Biogeographical History: The study of how species are distributed geographically and how this distribution has changed over time.
Behavioral Plasticity: The ability of an organism to change its behavior in response to environmental changes or new experiences.
Sexual Selection: A mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with, and this choice influences the evolution of the chosen sex's secondary sexual characteristics.