The fences were highly effective at excluding rabbits but larger vertebrates, for example roe and muntjac deer, occasionally jumped over them.
In the smaller roe deer, there is only a hook-shaped patch at the temporal end of the visual streak.
Red deer are also more adaptable than other ruminants such as roe deer.
The woods today are less disturbed, otherwise we would not be seeing an explosive growth in the population of roe deer.
Ungulates (fallow deer, red deer, roe deer, wild boars), many micromammalians species and a great variety of birds comprise the wild fauna of the reserve.
Next is the smaller and perhaps more familiar roe deer, also believed to be indigenous to this country.
I expect that poaching is very rare among roe deer: they look after themselves very well.
It is very difficult in thick cover and thick undergrowth to control roe deer in any other way.
