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OF the large land mammals which originally inhabited the British Isles, civilization has left as sole survivors the deer, and of these the red deer, saved from extinction because of their value throughout the ages for the chase, have been studied perhaps more than any other British mammal. Yet there was more to be done. The growing appreciation of the oneness of an animal with its environment, animate and inanimate, demanded that a closer reckoning should be made between vital reactions and the condition or combination of conditions with which they were associated.
A Herd of Red Deer
A Study in Animal Behaviour. By Dr. F. Fraser Darling. Pp. x + 215 + 8 plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1937.) 15s. net.
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A Herd of Red Deer. Nature 143, 453 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143453a0
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