Cervus elaphus scoticus_Red mouintain Deer Hind female in low sunlight landscape turning, Scotland, UK
The Red Deer is Britain's wildlifel, standing up to at the shoulder. Male Red Deer are distinguished from the females by their branched antlers, which they lose and re-grow each year. For centuries, the wild deer of Britain were reserved exclusively for royalty to hunt. William the Conqueror introduced the death penalty for killing a deer, and a sentence of maiming for attempting to kill a deer. These harsh penalties were not abolished until the reign of Henry III, although deer were still preserved by law for the sport of the monarch until the nineteenth century.
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