deer
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She moved north, she said, for “the nature, the animals, the deer, the birds. The creatures!”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Deeper analysis showed ravens were in fact revisiting spots where wolves commonly took down prey -- animals like deer, elk or bison -- suggesting the birds were creating and memorizing a "resource landscape."
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
As elk numbers declined in Yellowstone, cougars shifted their focus toward deer.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
It smelt of reindeer and red deer and beaver, and fresh blood -and something else: a new smell that he hadn’t yet learnt.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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