• Male fallow deer do not drive females into herds or prevent them from leaving their range, unlike the red deer. Fallow deer groups may include up to 80 individuals, but their size depends on the region.
• The species’ natural range is now restricted to a small area in southern Turkey, but thanks to introductions since antiquity the fallow deer has become one of the most widely distributed deer in the world.

The European fallow deer inhabits the Palearctic biogeographical region and is found in several distinct ecosystems, including Celtic broadleaf forests, broadleaf forests of Western Europe, coniferous forests of the Qilian Mountains, Balkan mixed forests, Baltic mixed forests, and coniferous and mixed forests of the Pyrenees.