The Wapiti 



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them. The latter carried the wire-netting and the two horns of 

 his dead rival for some months till he shed his own horns. 



This shows not only how important it is not to let two 

 stags be together in one paddock, but also that there should 

 never be anything like wire-netting, rope, coiled wire, or sacking 

 left lying about in which a stag can entangle his horns. 





Photo by the Author. 



WAPITI STAG ROARING. 



I have known fallow bucks killed by barbed wire being left 

 lying in a coil, and even getting hung by a child's swing in 

 a tree. 



At the commencement of my experiments with wapiti, I 

 found the proportion of female to male calves almost five to 



