Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
> <gbannister10@> wrote:
> 
> > A stag is *any* male deer. 

zanooda:
> I don't know, Geoff, I read a little about deer today, and my
> understanding was that with large deer (like red deer) it's "stag" for
>  males, "hind" for females, and "calf" for the young, but with smaller
> deer (like fallow deer) it's "buck" for males, "doe" for females, and
> "fawn" for the young. Mind you, I still don't know much about deer or
> animals in general :-).

Geoff:
I think this may be one of those UK/US linguistic things. Locally, we 
certainly talk about fawns and  I can't recall hearing buck used very much 
at all.