La maleza

A species belonging to the deer family (cervids), with noticeable sexual dimorphism: males weigh up to 60 kg, while females reach only 40 kg. It also shows seasonal color differences between summer, when its coat is chestnut with white spots, and winter, when it turns grayish and the spots become less noticeable.

Adult males have palmate antlers (called “palms”), which clearly differ from a red deer’s antlers because they do not have tines. This antler shape is an adaptation to the environment, since today’s fallow deer descends from ancestors that lived much farther north in Europe and used their antlers like shovels to lift snow and reach the food beneath it.

Its tail is short and dark, with two striking white patches surrounding it, framed in turn by black, parenthesis-shaped markings.
It is smaller than the red deer.