"Deer May Lose Sunday Day of Rest From Hunters" (Feb. 27) blames deer for deer-car collisions and for Lyme disease, even though statistics do not bear out these links.
Thus, we hypothesized that although having many advantages for captive sika deer in deer farm, such as the comparative steady living environment and high degree of freedom for activity, food source during long winter is still the most important constraint in altering the major structure of bacterial communities.
Deer, for example roe deer, red deer and fallow deer, are the common reproduction host types for European Ixodes ricinus ticks.
Moderate cross-reactivity was observed for sika deer, red deer, roe deer, reindeer and wild boar.
We adopted a used-unused design to estimate Resource Selection Probability Functions (RSPF) for tigers, red deer, roe deer, sika deer, wild boar, musk deer and moose.
The examination of faecal samples from Norwegian free ranging cervids; moose; red deer; roe deer and wild reindeer; for the presence of important pathogens to humans, revealed only one positive sample for Campylobacter and none for either Salmonella or verocytotoxic E. coli.
We had been the old-timers of the group and I was missing our chats as we poked about his farm in his pickup looking for deer or deer sign and leaving the youngsters in their 40's, 50's and 60's to deal with the more rigorous elements of the chase.
■ Look for deer in groups.
That provides fodder for deer in winter.
"Watch for deer," My father said.
There is habitat for deer and birds.
