Capreolus capreolus
Roe Deer
A slender, wary dweller of the forest clearings — the embodiment of lightness in motion.
The roe deer has a well-balanced body — slim, light and wonderfully agile. Its legs are slender and long, its hooves black; even so, it is no long-distance runner. The tail is short and barely visible. From muzzle to tail it measures 130–140 cm. Weight depends on range, diet, season, condition and sex — females are 5–10% lighter than males — and usually comes to around 25 kg, though it can reach 40 kg.
In habit the roe deer is mainly diurnal, most active in the afternoon and evening, feeding eight to eleven times over the course of a day. The average lifespan is 13–15 years, occasionally 17–18. Its behaviour is of the so-called distance type, for it avoids life in larger social communities. By late autumn it bands into herds and stays in them until spring; this gathering is instinctive, prompted by harsh outside conditions. Within the herd an inner order holds the group together and lends it a sense of safety, and the leader is, as a rule, a doe leading her fawns.
On Klekovača the roe deer inhabits a mosaic of forest and clearing, where the patient hunter watches for it in the early morning and evening hours — the stalking of a roe buck is among the finest challenges our grounds have to offer.
Roe Deer
Gallery
Roe Deer
Footage from the hunting ground
Game Species
Other Game
Wild Boar
Sus scrofa
Hardy and cunning, the wild boar roams the damp thickets in sounders and offers exciting hunting throughout the year.
Chamois
Rupicapra rupicapra
Sure-footed and shy, the chamois moves across steep cliffs above the tree line, where only the persistent may hunt it.
Mouflon
Ovis gmelini musimon
The ram's horns, curling into a full snail-like spiral, crown the mouflon — the introduced king of the sunny slopes.
Grey Wolf
Canis lupus
His howl carries across the valleys at dusk, and as the apex predator the wolf keeps the game population in balance.