How to Use red deer in a Sentence

red deer

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• Mammal species that have been introduced to New Zealand by humans, like the red deer, don’t seem to be able to pick up the slack.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
• About 85% of Siberian tigers' diet consists of wild boar, red deer and sika deer.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 8 June 2020
• The deer, which appeared to be a young red deer doe, was exhausted by the time it was brought onto the boat by Bowditch and his charter guest Morgan Lloyd.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• When red deer stags grow new antlers, for example, the cells at the tips produce receptors for insulin/IGF.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2012
• Once a day time color photo was turned in, DNR officials recognized it as a red deer.
  — Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
• The bones of red deer, roe deer, and boar were made into wind instruments and decorative objects.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2021
• During the summer months, researchers found brown hare, red deer, moose, wild boar, red fox, raccoon dogs, Eurasian lynx, and wolves alongside them, as well as a number of birds and bats.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2019
• Solitariness was observed among elderly female red deer on the Isle of Rum.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Lee’s artifact failed to produce results, van Bragt’s point was identified as red deer from 8,000 years ago.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
• The study scientists puzzled over why Mesolithic people used red deer and human skeletons for their weapons.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
• Outrageous headdresses replaced by the distant antlers of the estate’s red deer.
  — Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
• After the price of wool cratered at the end of the 19th century, the Highlands’ economy shifted to deer stalking, and red deer, equally rapacious, took over from sheep.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• Authors of the primary paper published today note that red deer from the island of Jersey took a mere 6,000 years to reduce to one-sixth the size of their ancestors.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2016
• Grouse and red deer, in season, comes from Balmoral, along with pheasant and partridge from Sandringham, and more pheasant from Windsor, too.
  — Tom Parker Bowles, Town & Country, 15 May 2022
• On the menu, described Thursday in the journal Current Biology, were the fat and meat of a wild goat, meat of a red deer and whole wheat seeds, which Oetzi ate shortly before his death.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2018
• Their multi-pronged approach allowed the scientists to identify the meat as wild game, red deer and ibex, with a high degree of certainty.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2021
• BBC News notes that early communities in the area prized red deer for their meat and hides, as well as their bones and antlers, which prehistoric people used to make a variety of tools.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021
• The fragments, from two sites near Bordeaux, were made from the ribs of ungulates, probably red deer (Cervus elephus) or reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2013
• That’s unusual in the UK, where wild boar and red deer seem to have made up a more significant proportion of Mesolithic people’s diets.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• The new study, for example, was able to determine that the ring was made from Cervus elaphus, known as red deer or, more specifically in North America, elk.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
• Per the Guardian’s Severin Carrell, the carvings depict two male red deer with full antlers and several other animals believed to be young deer.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021
• Researchers also discovered a number of other species in the CEZ during the summer, including brown hare, red deer, moose, wild boar, red fox and raccoon dogs.
  — Fox News, 30 Oct. 2019
• In a metagenomic analysis of the samples, Maixner and his colleagues confirmed this by finding segments of DNA belonging to red deer and ibex.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 13 July 2018
• This barrow also cuts across pits containing red deer antlers, which Neolithic groups used to make tools, combs, pins, weapons and ritual objects.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
• And rare artifacts, like a plentiful number of red deer antler headdresses and masks, are intriguing.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
• With a surface area of over 1.5 million ha, the area is used for livestock rearing, grazing, red deer farming, fodder production and apiculture.
  — National Geographic, 14 June 2017
• Choose to head out on a riverside hike through lush landscapes inhabited by red deer, ptarmigan, and snowy owl, or spend time exploring Braemar’s charming shops and galleries.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Artifacts show its Neanderthal inhabitants hafted stone tools, butchered red deer, and may have made fires.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
• Scotland’s largest deer species, the red deer, usually live in open-hill habitats year-round in groups of up to 40 individuals, according to the Mammal Society.
  — Erin Berge, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
• The bones recovered from around the cave were later found to come from seven individual humans, though bones from red deer, badgers, cattle and horses were also mixed in.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019

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