The Black Deer Of San Rossore (17/268)

The Black Deer Of San Rossore (17/268)

It's the secret of male success: In contrast to Red Deer, male Fallow Deer employ a special strategy to succeed with the opposite sex. While Red Deer try to defend their harem with as little bloodshed as possible, Fallow Deer go all out. With their mighty shovel-shaped antlers, the bucks fight until one of them gives up. In the end, only a handful of stags succeed in impressing the females sufficiently. Why is that? Fallow Deer researchers attempt to solve the secret of these deer, by observing a herd living on the former royal hunting grounds of San Rossore, outside of Pisa, Italy. A young black buck gets a tracking device around its neck, allowing the scientists to observe it from childhood to its spectacular mating season. Other Fallow Deer have tracking devices, but this one is the first to be observed from infancy. But then, a few months before the decisive rut, contact to the black stag breaks off. The researchers nervously wonder whether poachers shot the buck, or whether the transmitter is merely broken. A question that can only be resolved with the rutting season, when the Fallow Deer meet at a mysterious location, always the same time and place. Will the black stag show up??

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