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FOR sporting purposes, more than 100 liberations of red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) were made in New Zealand during 1851–19231. Some of these deer were of mixed strains (including English, Scottish, and German) from several English parks2. They were afforded partial or complete protection in most parts of the Dominion until 1930, Because of this, and because of the great abundance of browse in the previously unbrowsed indigenous forests and alpine grasslands, the several established herds increased and spread to the remaining suitable environments in both main islands with dramatic speed. The average rate of spread of the red deer and other species of introduced deer has recently been given by Caughley3. Control operations against the red deer and other species were initiated in 1930 and are continuing in economically important areas4. To-day the red deer occupy most of the suitable lowland and mountain forests and alpine grasslands from about latitude 37° S. to 47° S,—a very wide variety of deer habitat.
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DANIEL, M. Early Fertility of Red Deer Hinds in New Zealand. Nature 200, 380 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200380a0
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