Thursday, November 16, 2017

RED DEER

Photographed at Borumba Dam near Imbril, Queensland, November 2017
77              RED DEER              Cervus elaphus

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS              77

 Introduced species, largest of deer in Australia. Populations found in Grampians NP, w. Victoria, and in headwaters of Mary and Brisbane Rivers, Queensland; locally common. opportunistic herbivores, graze and browses on wide range of foliage and bark of plants and lichen and fungi. Gregarious in small single-sex herds for much of year.     





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