In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...

As beautiful as nature can be, it can also create some harrowing scenes. Just take, for instance, this beautiful, young Sika ...

Gamekeepers say they have been spared the mental torment of shooting pregnant red deer at times when they are close to giving birth. The Scottish government had proposed extending the open season on ...

The other species are roe, fallow and sika. Public agency NatureScot ... current levels of culling had reduced deer numbers without having to extend the female season. He said: "In coming to ...

The mixed woodland in the glacial valley with steep sides of sessile oak, ash and holly trees – home to squirrels, sika deer, foxes and ... [the Dóchas Mountjoy Female Prison had just opened ...

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The two most senior known individuals were a female in the wild who lived to the age of 32 and ... Japanese macaques also have a commensalism relationship with the sika deer; as the deer eats leaves, ...

A photographer recently captured images of a group of wild roe deer and sika deer at the Hunchun Nature Reserve of the ...

The resident Japanese macaque monkeys and sika deer have developed a close, mutually beneficial inter-species bond. The macaques ride around the island on the deers’ backs like miniature jockeys, ...

Over the years, I’ve had some late-night near misses with deer on rural roads, but nothing as surprising as a recent daytime encounter with Sika deer within a stone’s throw of the M50 in Dublin.