Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 320 pages |
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... kind For Squire Hasell , the popular representative of one of the best and most sporting families in the North of England , does not surround his forest with artificial bounds . The deer are absolutely unshackled and wander as freely as ...
... kind For Squire Hasell , the popular representative of one of the best and most sporting families in the North of England , does not surround his forest with artificial bounds . The deer are absolutely unshackled and wander as freely as ...
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... kind , it is true , but none the less service- able . He is the third of his strain in the service of the Hasell family ; both his father ( who died at a great age ) and his grand - uncle having adopted the same vocation in life . He ...
... kind , it is true , but none the less service- able . He is the third of his strain in the service of the Hasell family ; both his father ( who died at a great age ) and his grand - uncle having adopted the same vocation in life . He ...
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... The advent of the rut , or ' Brunftzeit ' as it is called in Germany , is the chief fact in the life of the stag . Jackson assures me that even young animals feel the desire to reproduce their kind . The THE RED DEER'S LIFE 31.
... The advent of the rut , or ' Brunftzeit ' as it is called in Germany , is the chief fact in the life of the stag . Jackson assures me that even young animals feel the desire to reproduce their kind . The THE RED DEER'S LIFE 31.
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Natural History Hugh Alexander Macpherson. animals feel the desire to reproduce their kind . The acquisition of a harem is therefore a question of strength and determination . A two - year - old stag is capable of begetting stock , but ...
Natural History Hugh Alexander Macpherson. animals feel the desire to reproduce their kind . The acquisition of a harem is therefore a question of strength and determination . A two - year - old stag is capable of begetting stock , but ...
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... kind . The plates are coloured and well executed . Still more important is A. B. Meyer's work upon the heads of deer , ' Die Hirschgeweih - Sammlung im Schlosse zu Moritzburg , ' of which the first edition appeared in 1883 , followed by ...
... kind . The plates are coloured and well executed . Still more important is A. B. Meyer's work upon the heads of deer , ' Die Hirschgeweih - Sammlung im Schlosse zu Moritzburg , ' of which the first edition appeared in 1883 , followed by ...
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