Chemical and fatty acid composition of male mouflon (Ovis ammon musimon Pal.) meat

Effect of Sex and Age on Nutritional Content in Wild Axis Deer (Axis axis Erx.) Meat

“…Bureš et al [14] found a lower fat content in the meat of male fallow and red deer, while Daszkiewicz et al [9] reported a similar fat content in female, but lower content in male roe deer. A lower fat content was also found in male mouflon co-inhabiting the same area with axis deer [50]. In the present study, no significant effects of sex were found on meat proximate chemical composition, which corresponds to results reported elsewhere [17,20].…”

“…An increase with age and lower meat fat content was observed for sub-adult axis deer, similar to reports for other deer species [7,8,13]. On the contrary, mouflon were reported to have a decrease of fat content with age [50].…”

“…As in the present study, Razmaite et al [17] and Švrčula et al [12] reported a higher PUFA in female and male deer, while a higher PUFA in male than female deer was reported by Piaskoweska et al [11] and Danszkiewicz et al [9]. In male mouflon meat, a higher PUFA was reported than in the present study [50].…”

“…Decrease of PUFA by age found in the present study corresponds to the results reported by Volpelli et al [7] for fallow deer, although PUFA content was considerably higher than for axis deer. Contrarily, an increase of PUFA by age was found in red deer [13] and in mouflon [50].…”

Can antler stage represent an activity driver in axis deer Axis axis?

“…Owing to the climate and geological conditions, scrublands and woodlands of Euro-Mediterranean vegetation dominate. The area is a forest ecosystem composed of carbonate rocks with predominant holm oak Quercus ilex, and manna ash Fraxinus ornus cover (Ugarković and Ugarković 2013), at elevations between sea level and 94 m. Forest cover prevails (94%; Tomljanović 2016), with stem density (733-9581 ha -1 ) in the study area (Oršanić et al 2011). According to the Köppen classification, the study area belongs to Cfa climate group of humid subtropical climates (Seletković et al 2011), with an average annual temperature of 15.3°C (mean temperature: 23.6°C in summer; 8.0°C in winter).…”