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The nature and animal park Terra Natura Murcia is being stage from now one of the most impressive spectacles that can deliver the animal fauna, the courtship of deer (Cervus elaphus), known as the rut haul.
Although it is customary to begin in mid-September this year was a little ahead in Murcia caused by recent rains.
After eleven months of abstinence, adult males emit a guttural sound characteristic, known as the rut, with the intention of attracting females and show their strength and superiority to other deer.
Large males often fight each other with the horns, in a bloodless sort of ritual.
The winners, copies stronger, which will mate with more females.
The female, apparently passive but also decide who is going to be the father of her child according to the fawn who wants gestate.
If you do not like, goes a step and means that the male is not the time.
Finally, the stag covers the female.
Eight months pregnant and give birth in spring.
The fawn or (boar), will remain with the mother until the next delivery.
The antlers of the males, which is renewed annually, grows coated with highly vascular skin called velvet silky or erased, and in July reached its final size and characteristic brown color. The deer in turn are prepared to design .
The deer is a large herbivore that lives mainly in the Mediterranean forests, high jumper and swimmer is generally nocturnal habits.
Source: Agencias
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