Deer Pevensies to their home in England. In the 1979 book "The Animals of Farthing Wood", The Great White Stag is the leader of all the animals. Deer are represented in heraldry by the "stag" or "hart", or less often, by the "hind", and the "brocket" (a young stag up to two years), respectively. Stag's heads and antlers also appear as charges. The old name for deer was simply cerf, and it is chiefly the head that appears on the ancient arms. Examples of deer in coats of arms can be found in the arms of Hertfordshire, England, and its county
Deer forest deer can move freely across large tracts of hill country. Boundaries, referred to as "marches", are usually marked by a river, stream, ridge, shoreline or similar natural feature. "Hind forests" and "stag forests" are so called because of the tendencies of red deer to form large, single-sex herds outside the autumn rutting time, and most forests hold either a resident stag herd or a hind herd for much of the year. In "deer forest", the term "forest" is derived from the ancient and medieval use of the Latin word "foris" - "open" or "waste", to denote an extensive outdoor "waste