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How would Roe Deer do in Africa?
Topic Started: Dec 21 2016, 05:20 PM (657 Views)
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How would Roe Deer do in Africa against antelopes? Assume they don't overheat or are in an environment that prevents them from overheating.
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Thalanx
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either there would be too much competition for them, or they would thrive at the expense of a native ungulate.

from a handbook:

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Aggressive behaviour: By males (mainly during territorial period) is generally ritual demonstration, including barking, chasing, rubbing, fraying, butting and scent-marking vegetation, scraping and stamping with forefeet; more rarely leads to fighting by locking antlers and pushing and twisting; deaths may occur. Females aggressive (stamping, hissing, chasing, butting) towards predators, humans and other deer around parturition.
Edited by Thalanx, Dec 21 2016, 05:35 PM.
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I think most of the antelopes as small as the roe deer are faster? This could be a concern. The openness of the Savannah (it seems that's where people mean when they say "Africa") would not be their friend. In their native range they tend to dash for the nearest thicket.
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LeopardNimr
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they are prey
yet they do live with other species in northern israel
like the wild goat
i guess they can do just fine
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They'd do okay.

But predators such as Cheetahs and Wild Dogs would be a threat. But overall they should do ok (unless Poachers to notice of them).
Edited by Mammuthus, Dec 26 2016, 11:09 PM.
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Implying you can deduce from roe deer's ecology, behaviour and so on, whatever it can survive in Africa.

It is already next to impossible to determine which species will become naturalized, and to another level, invasive.
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I doubt it would do well in sub-saharan Africa (too many native ungulates to compete with), but okay in north Africa, which is similar to the Mediterranean climate it already inhabits.
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MightyKharza
Dec 27 2016, 07:00 AM
I doubt it would do well in sub-saharan Africa (too many native ungulates to compete with), but okay in north Africa, which is similar to the Mediterranean climate it already inhabits.
North Africa already has a deer, though.
a more closely-related ungulate is bound to be a more serious competitor than a large number of distantly-related ungulates; don't you think?
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Thalanx
Dec 27 2016, 07:18 AM
MightyKharza
Dec 27 2016, 07:00 AM
I doubt it would do well in sub-saharan Africa (too many native ungulates to compete with), but okay in north Africa, which is similar to the Mediterranean climate it already inhabits.
North Africa already has a deer, though.
a more closely-related ungulate is bound to be a more serious competitor than a large number of distantly-related ungulates; don't you think?
I personally think that relatedness is irrelevant, niche and overlap is what matters most. You would be right to point out that some closely-related species do have similar niches.
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