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Père David’s deer (Elaphurus davidianus), also known as the milu, a species of deer that is currently extinct in the wild. The Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve in Yancheng City, Jiangsu province, east China, has the world’s largest milu population
Photograph: Han Yuqing/Corbis
Deer, Czech Republic by Veronika Kolev
Deer at the Kaziranga national park, east of Gauhati, Assam, India
Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP
(Source: Guardian)
Red deer on Pfänder mountain, Austria
Photograph: Felix Kaestle/EPA
(Source: Guardian)
A deer runs in a snow covered field in a forest in Nalibokskaya forest reserve.
Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP
(Source: Guardian)
Deer in the snow in Richmond Park, London
Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters
(Source: Guardian)
The elusive Indian spotted chevrotain or mouse deer, snapped here in Nagarahole national park in Mysore, India. Little is known about the behaviour of this animal, most of the information comes form anecdotal observations and sight records. You are more likely to spot a tiger in national parks and forests in India than these deer-like nocturnal animals
Photograph: Giri Cavale/Conservation India
(Source: Guardian)
Deer grazing at Wollaton Park in Nottingham, central England
Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters
(Source: Guardian)
A deer sits in the snow in Richmond Park, London
Picture: REUTERS/Andrew Winning
Deer graze in a frosty landscape at Petworth Park in Sussex
Picture: Christopher Pledger
Deer, Michigan
Photograph by George Shiras
An one-month old baby pudu deer grazes in an artificial environment at an University in Concepción City, south of Santiago. The pudu, the world’s smallest deer, was found orphaned in a forest and inhabits exclusively in southern Chile and part of Argentina. The species is currently in danger of extinction
Photograph: Jose Luis Saavedra/Reuters
(Source: Guardian)
A crow sits on the rump of a fallow deer stag grazing under autumnal trees at Petworth Park in West Sussex
Photograph: Chris Ison/PA
(Source: Guardian)
