How to Use red deer in a Sentence
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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
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About 85% of Siberian tigers' diet consists of wild boar, red deer and sika deer.
—Lauren Kent, CNN, 8 June 2020
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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
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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
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Once a day time color photo was turned in, DNR officials recognized it as a red deer.
—Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
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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
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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
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Solitariness was observed among elderly female red deer on the Isle of Rum.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
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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
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The study scientists puzzled over why Mesolithic people used red deer and human skeletons for their weapons.
—Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
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Outrageous headdresses replaced by the distant antlers of the estate’s red deer.
—Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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And rare artifacts, like a plentiful number of red deer antler headdresses and masks, are intriguing.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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Artifacts show its Neanderthal inhabitants hafted stone tools, butchered red deer, and may have made fires.
—Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
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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
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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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