Thread: What Sort of Deer Is This ?

Originally Posted by blip

Looks like a dead deer to me

tell us what gave the show away

Originally Posted by blip

Looks like a dead deer to me

No no he's not dead, he's, he's resting!

We are starting to see out of season fawns here in the uk.
Might be the same there as a few have said.
God knows they won’t survive the winter here if we get a cold blast from the north.

@Bagheera was that up the falls? The Mrs was talking briefly to a joker who carried a small deer down. You perhaps?

I don't see glands on inner back leg. The tail seems long.
Freak fallow red cross, luke horse x donkey = mule.
Did you notice if underside of tail had the usual red gland?

no fallow red don't cross - not even the same family - fallow are Dama Dama red are Servus Elaphus -no its just a real young runt of a red

Yes, I know. Fallow are a type of antelipe. There are no ta or leg glands on them, which made me wonder if this was some sort of sterile freak cross like a mule

Originally Posted by Woody

Yes, I know. Fallow are a type of antelipe. There are no ta or leg glands on them, which made me wonder if this was some sort of sterile freak cross like a mule

no just young red - dont think fallow are an antelope just a very old breed of deer - they are in the general family of cervidae along with reds wapiti -- from the learn something stupid every day heres an interesting fact about mules - a horse stallion x donkey mare is called a hinnie -- a donkey stallion x horse mare is a mule - hinnies are usually by accident whereas mules have been bred for centurys there ya learn something stupid every day - a mate in Stratford bred a mule - reckoned dirtiest little mongrel he had ever come across - kicked bit nasty little shit

@charliehorse yes I did mention to someone I had a small deer.

@Woody i have to admit I didnt look under the tail … it was the size of one of those handbag sika so i wondered if it could have been a cross but the body looked just like a red only small. Would you like me to post a higher resolution pic ?

@scotty Regarding amount of deer sign, some parts of Pureora do have more. In the Kaimais its more localised and seems to vary with season. I’m always there just after the deer it seems. “No deer in the Kaimais”, remember ? But there are quite few good spots if you search them out. Certainly there are more birds in Pureora, like kaka and NZ falcon swooping down the roads. As far as I know there has been no aerial 1080 in the Kaimais for a quarter century.

Ive seen more pig sign up there over the last 5 years or so. Dogs make deer flighty but all power to them if they can limit pig numbers.

Theres been a lot of rain up there recently, all old prints washed away, droppings faded clean.
The steams were higher than Ive seen them before.
Try again after a couple of weeks dry weather and new grass will have grown up as the swamps drain out.

@Bagheera. Bigger pic won't solve, ut have read up of the tail and leg glands of reds.
Another puzzle turned up recently where a live fox - dog hybrid was discovered. Some strange things are occurring in various fauna around the world. DNA changes, many forever chemicals etc throughout.

@scotty what do you class as lower kaimai?

Then, there have been Hummels forever as well.

Originally Posted by charliehorse

@scotty what do you class as lower kaimai?

going in from 29

I wonder if this would have grown up to be a hummel ?
I once shot one at Arthurs Pass decades ago.