“…Dominant animals -such as males in cervids -could monopolize attractive feeds, like the highly digestible concentrates, and therefore be particularly susceptible. Similar to the case of our bull moose, Spiecker (1967) describes the case of a male fallow deer (Dama dama), kept with a harem of females, that had a very good body condition, indicative of prime access to the concentrate portion of the diet, and that also had hoof overgrowth.…”