Archive for the 'Deer' Category
Almost everyone who has spent much time in the country, at least in the eastern part of the United States, has been thrilled by a glimpse of a white tailed deer. Perhaps it was standing quietly in a glade, dappled by the broken sunlight, or perhaps it was first seen as it bounded away in alarm, whitetail or “flag” [...]
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The plains and badlands of the western United States are the home of the mule deer – so-called because of its extremely large ears similar to those of the mule. Another name for it is the black tailed deer.
It prefers to live in wild and broken country, among the mountains, and foothills, where great rocks [...]
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The regional home of the fallow deer was north Africa and the countries bordering the Mediterranean, but it was introduced into northern Europe centuries ago and it has long been a favorite in the deer parks on large estates in England and on the continent. There are few prettier sites in the animal world than [...]
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This is the common deer of much of Europe and is found also, in some of its forms, over a large part of Asia. Nowadays, of course, the red deer does not roam wild over the continents as it did hundreds of years ago, but great herds are still preserved on the large estates in [...]
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All through the Orient there are large, coarse haired, dark deer that belong to the sambar group. The powerful Indian sambar, standing about 5 feet high and weighing more than 600 pounds, is typical of this group and is often seen in zoos.
Although India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the islands of the Southwest Pacific are [...]
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Many naturalists say that the handsomest dearer in the world is the axis deer of India and Sri Lanka, perhaps because it is reddish brown body is spotted the whole year round with big, regularly spaced, white dots. We are likely to think of baby deer, or fawns, as being spotted, or may have seen [...]
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The name barasingha is an Indian word that means twelve tines and refers to the many tines, or prongs, on the antlers of the deer. Swamp deer is another name for the animal, although this name is applied to a whole group of the deer and does not necessarily mean that they live in swampy places. [...]
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Of all the many interesting kinds of deer, the pere (father) David’s deer is worth special mention. For untold centuries this deer roamed the swampy, reedy plains of North China but was gradually killed off until the only deer left in the last century were held by the Emperor of China in a small park south of [...]
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The Indians who lived in North America before the white men came had names for all the animals and sometimes we have taken over the Indian name – caribou for instance, which means “shoveler” in the language of the Micmac Indians. It refers to the way in which this big deer paws away the snow [...]
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The deer with this unlovely name is a native of India and Burma and is a quite small creature, being only about 2 feet high at the shoulders. However, it did not get its name from the fact that it is small or hog-like, but rather because of its way of running. When frightened, it [...]
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