Mostly it consists of sandy woodland and pristine marshes, full of red squirrels and sika deer. |
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Deer are herbivores and sika are no exception, munching just about any kind of vegetation. |
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Goodall also praised Taiwan's efforts to preserve endangered animals, such as the sika deer in Kenting National Park. |
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In the Asia Field, you will feel your eyes are not big enough to take in the camels, yaks, fallow deer, sika deer, blue sheep and springbok capering in all directions. |
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They also enjoyed the scimitar-horned oryx, axis deer, fallow deer, sika deer, blackbuck antelope, eland, impala, bison and many more species calling the Rio Bonito home. |
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Because of its elusiveness the sika stag has always been much coveted by trophy hunters. |
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The sika deer can be active throughout the day, though in areas with heavy human disturbance, they tend to be nocturnal. |
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The sika deer is a highly vocal species, with over 10 individual sounds, ranging from soft whistles to loud screams. |
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The sika deer inhabits temperate and subtropical woodlands, which often occupy areas suitable for farming and other human exploitation. |
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In Britain, Ireland, and mainland Europe, sika display very different survival strategies and escape tactics from the indigenous deer. |
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In Japanese Shintoism, the sika deer is believed to be a messenger to the gods. |
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It is probable that the ancestor of all red deer, including wapiti, originated in central Asia and resembled sika deer. |
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The University of Edinburgh found that, in Scotland, there has been extensive hybridisation with the closely related sika deer. |
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The ancestor of all Cervus species probably originated in central Asia and resembled sika deer. |
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The sika deer is one of the few deer species that does not lose its spots upon reaching maturity. |
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In the 1900s, King Edward VII presented a pair of sika deer to John, the second Baron Montagu of Beaulieu. |
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This pair escaped into Sowley Wood and were the basis of the sika to be found in the New Forest today. |
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The main predator of sika deer include tiger and wolves, leopard, brown bear. |
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Japan is the only country in eastern Asia where sika deer were not farmed for velvet antlers. |
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The six are native red and roe, and exotic sika, fallow, Chinese water deer and muntjac. |
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It has been locally outcompeted in North America by sika and chital. |
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Several species such as the chital, the fallow deer and the sika deer feature white spots on a brown coat. |
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The sika deer is another small species of deer which is not indigenous, originating from Japan. |
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Bands of sika exist across the north and south of England though the species is absent in Wales. |
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The zoo also received savannah and desert monitors, Brandt's hedgehogs, black swans, jackals, sika deers and Barbary sheep. |
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These are among some of the richest deciduous and coniferous forests in the world where one can find Siberian roe deer, sika deer, elk, and moose. |
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In addition to roebuck and muntjac, fallow deer are widespread, and there are scattered populations of red deer, sika deer and Chinese water deer. |
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However, the most common species such as axis deer, aoudad sheep, blackbuck, fallow deer, mouflon and sika deer are generally free-ranging on large acreage. |
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Japan has by far the largest native sika population in the world. |
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Across its original range and in many areas to which it has been introduced, the sika is regarded as a particularly prized and elusive sportsman's quarry. |
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The status of Manchurian sika deer in China is unclear, though it is believed to be extinct, as well, and the sightings there are actually feral populations. |
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Around the marsh is a vast wetland, where hygrophytes are in full bloom in summer, and wild animals live peacefully, including red foxes, Sika deer and sables. |
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Other species include the Japanese Sika deer, North European fallow deer, water buffalo, llamas, aoudads, ostriches, Sardinian donkeys and pigmy goats. |
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Sika stags have stout, upright antlers with an extra buttress up from the brow tine and a very thick wall. |
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One in four car windshields is adhesively bonded using Sika products. |
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Sika males are territorial and keep harems of females during the rut, which peaks from early September through October, but may last well into the winter months. |
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