The European Fallow Deer (Dama dama). No your not going color blind, these beauties were created to blend in perfectly to the snowy semi wooded grasslands. Bone evidence found in caves shows that the Palaeolithic cultures 300,000 years ago hunted and used the entire fallow deer for survival. Being an important meat source for humans for hundreds of thousands of years, fallow deer were hunted to near extinction in most of Europe by the late 1800's. The last remaining natural herds of fallow were