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Spotted Deer or Chital

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Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Field Notes

Description:

Fawn (apt term) colour coat with white spots. Some, like this one had branching antlers.

Habitat:

Marooned on Ross Island, these are now being called "pests."

Notes:

Rapidly crossing the level which this small island can sustain. Descendant of the deer that the erstwhile British rulers introduced so that they could hunt:
http://www.firstpost.com/india/in-andaman-nicobar-deer-elephants-are-ma…

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Chital

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PublishedOctober 15, 2014

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