Deer, Deer, Deer! Trivia Quiz

Answer: roe deer

There are in total six different types of deer found in Australia. The fallow, red or wapiti, hog, axis or spotted deer, timor and rusa and sambar are all able to be found in some parts of Australia, mostly in the bush. Roe deer are mainly found in European countries.

Answer: False

Fallow deer are one of the smallest types of deer. They are delicate and flighty but are one of the world's most widely-naturalised animals with the ability to adapt to a wide range of climates.

Answer: deer

Generally speaking, both the singular and plural versions are "deer", in the same way as "sheep" can mean one or many animals. "Deers" is classed as acceptable, but is rarely used and most people would consider it to be incorrect.

Answer: No

It is not uncommon for deer to have twins but they usually only have one baby at a time. Triplets being born is very unusual and in most of these cases only one or two of the babies survive.

Answer: hind

The names of female deer differ by species. The most common names are does, applying to roe deer and fallow deer, and hinds, applying to red deer and Sika deer, but this is mainly because red and fallow deer are the most common and widespread types of deer. A fawn is a young deer, again of only some species, like the fallow deer, while a ewe, of course, is a female sheep.

Answer: Yes

Caribou live happily in the Arctic all year round. They are similar to reindeer, which also live in the same snowy conditions. Their thick coats keep them warm, trapping heat in each hollow hair.

Answer: red

Red deer babies are called calves and so are most of the larger species, for example reindeer babies. Fallow deer babies and other small deer species are called fawns.

Answer: No

In most deer species the males and the females live apart all year except in the mating season. The females live in tighter groups a little way away from the stags or sometimes with no stags at all. The males either wander alone or form little groups of up to eight stags staying a little way away from the females.

Answer: The stubs of antlers that grow on an adult stag's head

Buttons occur when antlers start to grow. In deer farming operations, the stags are usually rounded up, put in a pen, given a drug then have their antlers sawed off.

Answer: ostriches

Deer fences, like ostrich fences are twice the height of sheep, cow and horse fences. This is because deer are capable of jumping nearly two meters from a stationary position to reach food, and when frightened they can jump well over their already two meter tall fences.