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The roe deer is primarily crepuscular, or primarily active during the twilight, very quick and graceful, lives in woods although it may venture into grasslands and sparse forests.

It feeds mainly on grass, leaves, berries and young shoots.

It particularly likes very young, tender grass with a high moisture content, i. e., grass that has received rain the day before.

Roe deer will not generally venture into a field that has had or has livestock ( sheep, cattle ) in it because the livestock make the grass unclean.

A pioneer species commonly associated with biotic communities at an early stage of succession, during the Neolithic period in Europe the roe deer was abundant, taking advantage of areas of forest or woodland cleared by Neolithic farmers.