Alongside the occasional bison and elk, red deer are Europe's largest native wild animal. An international study led by wildlife ecologists from the University of Freiburg has now investigated the ...

Strong social networking plays an important role in human relationships. New research on female red deer shows that those bonds are also crucial for their reproductive success and survival. The study, ...

A Hidden Camera captured a mature red deer stag resting quietly between tree trunks in a secluded woodland clearing. The stag ...

The barbed wire, electric fences, watchtowers, and heavily-armed guards that once lined the Iron Curtain are long gone, but red deer wouldn't dare jump the border. Behavior learned at the height of ...

Red deer are social animals that spend most of their lives in male or female herds. The two sexes come together only during the annual mating season. Each spring, young are born. After several weeks ...

Residents of the community-owned South Uist Estate in the Western Isles were asked to vote on whether all the estate's 1,200 red deer should be killed. The move came after Scotland's nature agency, ...

A new study shows that human hunting and land use have a decisive influence on red deer density in Europe. Red deer density is only reduced when wolves, lynx and bears co-occur at the same site. A new ...