Altai Deer 



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call of the wapiti ; stags of the wapiti-red-deer cross roar almost like red 

 deer, but slightly higher in key and not so loud, and ending in a whistle. 



I have not hitherto heard the Altai-red-deer roar, as they are still 

 young, and therefore afraid to roar within hearing of the bigger stags. 



A peculiarity of the Altai stag I have not observed in any other 



Pnoto by II. Penfold. 



ALTAI STAG SHED HORNS. 



species of deer is that he chases the hinds about his paddock at times 

 other than the rutting-season. 



I have often of an evening seen him chasing them round and 

 round till he becomes quite exhausted, with his tongue hanging out, 

 seemingly only for the fun of frightening them and making them run, 

 but it may be that he is trying to separate them from the stag calves, 

 and that he would succeed in so doing if in the open. 



