From vulgar Latin "curtius", from the Latin "curtus": short, being of minor - 50 to 65 centimeters in height in cross - deer Europeans. Its taxonomic designation of genus and species is «Capreolus capreolus '. Quadrupedal ruminant little larger than the goat, rabicorto, brown reddish dorsum and white on the belly in summer, gray, and white rump in winter, small, podaria, antlers forked at the tips. After the time of brama, in August, the cervatos are born in may, spotted white.