deer

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They also documented where and when wolves killed prey, mainly elk, bison, and deer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 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

Clumber Park, near Worksop in Nottinghamshire, was created as a deer park in 1709 but the first hall was built by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the 1760s.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 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

We were moving so fast and the deer was moving so fast that within a second or two we were several yards past where it had happened and yet everything seemed suspended in slow motion.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen