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Story: Deer and deer farming

Welcome, Bambi!

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Welcome, Bambi!

Deer prefer privacy for fawning and for hiding the newborn offspring. This may be provided by trees, scrub, tall tussock, or long grass, as here.

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Ken Drew, Deer and deer farming – Feeding, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15819/welcome-bambi (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ken Drew, published 1 March 2009.