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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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deer
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Only three species of deer are native or long-established in Britain. The largest, the red deer (the proud stag of the *Monarch of the Glen), has its habitat in high moorland regions; it is stalked in the Highlands of Scotland and is hunted on Exmoor. The small and delicate roe deer, also native, lives in woodlands and is considered vermin because of the damage it does to young trees. Fallow deer, probably introduced by the Romans, are intermediate in size between the other two and live mainly in what survives of the ancient forests, such as Epping.
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Herds of red and fallow deer can be seen in many of the parks surrounding grand houses in Britain, while some other species have escaped from stately homes in the past century and are now living in the wild – notably two very small deer, the Asian muntjac and the Chinese water deer, both of which were brought in about 1900 to *Woburn (the home also of Père David's deer).
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