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This 640-pound concrete elk statue lies on its side in the backyard of Mark and Carol Brye’s home in rural Viroqua. The dead buck lies about 20 feet away. A love-struck buck ran out of luck a week ago. The seven-point buck was killed when it rammed a 640-pound concrete statue of an elk in the backyard of Mark and Carol Brye's home in rural Viroqua. Bucks often fight during the breeding season, commonly called the rut. Dominant bucks defend breeding territories and female deer by sparring with subordinate bucks. Antler battles sometimes result in the death of one or...

A love-struck buck ran out of luck a week ago. The seven-point buck was killed when it rammed a 640-pound concrete statue of an elk in the backyard of Mark and Carol Brye's home in rural Viroqua, Wis. Bucks often fight during the breeding season, commonly called the rut. Dominant bucks defend breeding territories and female deer by sparring with subordinate bucks. Antler battles sometimes result in the death of one or both deer, but usually end with the biggest buck winning and the smaller buck high-tailing it out to another area. Mark Brye, who owns Brye Plumbing in Viroqua,...

A deer was fatally injured Sunday after jumping into a lion enclosure at the National Zoo, as visitors looked on.

Scott O'Konek shoots his bow 300 days a year, dreaming that someday in the woods somewhere in Minnesota a white-tailed buck of memorable proportions will stride beneath his tree stand. For O'Konek, 29, dream and reality blurred last week at Camp Ripley when a 32-point buck -- bearing perhaps the largest non-typical rack ever taken by archery in Minnesota -- ambled toward him. Forty-four yards from O'Konek's perch, the statuesque whitetail stood a moment, shaking snow from its back as leaden skies drizzled rain. This was about 9 a.m. during the first of two special Camp Ripley archery hunts.

FLORISSANT, Colo. -- A 63-year-old woman trying to pet a male mule deer, or buck, was gored by it near Florissant on Monday, the Department of Wildlife said. Joan Nutt was at her sister's home at 893 County Road 31, around 5 p.m., when the attack occurred. Nutt was transported to the Pikes Peak Regional Medical Center in Woodland Park where she was treated for large cuts caused by the buck's antlers and hooves. Most injuries were to her elbow and lower arm, but she also had cuts and bruises on her hands, upper leg, stomach, and hip, the DOW...

FOND DU LAC - The deer a Fond du Lac man bagged has people talking all across Wisconsin. Hunters call the buck unbelievable, a freak of nature. "For anybody to shoot a fair chase animal like that is incredible, it just doesn't happen," Duffy Munson with Dutch's Trading Post said. But on Sunday it did for Wayne Schumacher. The avid hunter is now finding fame on the heels of a 30-pointer. "There had to be 250 people that came through looking at it yesterday," Schumacher said. "One would call the other one, after they saw it they would call the...

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The forest hardly trembles when its hooves fall in it, but the birth of a member of the smallest deer species at Belfast Zoo has made a big noise. Caju, who could reach 45cms and weigh up to 13kg, is the first captive Chilean pudu birth in Ireland. Born three weeks ago he will reach his full height in three months. A male pudu arrived at the zoo in 2004 and was joined by a female last year. Keeper Raymond Robinson said it was "great to have a baby already". "He is very small and can be difficult to spot...

Family survives deer landing inside SUVApril 01, 2009 COEYMANS, N.Y. (AP) -- Five people riding in an SUV escaped with minor cuts and scratches after a deer hurtled through their windshield and landed in the vehicle's cargo area. Heather Sherman says she and her boyfriend, her two daughters and her mother were driving Saturday night on Route 32 in the town of Coeymans (KWEE'-mihnz) when an oncoming car hit the deer, sending it into their windshield. Sherman says she and her boyfriend were covered in blood after the impact. They pulled over, and when she went to the back of...

A man was butted by an unexpected assailant while shopping at his local supermarket in a Stockholm suburb on Friday - a roebuck deer. "I was caught unawares when the roebuck suddenly came at me," Anders Östeberg said to Aftonbladet of his meeting with the deer at a Coop store in Liljeholmen in southern Stockholm. It is thought that the deer sneaked into the building when the loading bay was left open in connection with a delivery. The frightened deer ran into the store and Östberg was unfortunate to be in the rampaging animal's path. The deer butted Östberg on...

In an incident fitting of Friday the 13th lore, a deer jumped through a closed window, swam in three pools and left Mayflower Motel unscathed this weekend. "The front desk called me, and there was only an hour left to Friday the 13th," Manager George Zapuchlak said. "The phone rings at 10 (minutes) to 12 and I said, 'You've got to be kidding me.'" According to security guard Thomas Murphy, he was on his way to lock the pool area for the night when he startled a group of deer. Three of the four deer ran across Wisconsin Dells Parkway,...

A conch cacophony, proof that police officers really are getting younger and the deer looking for beer. It's the week's weird and wonderful video news stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

TOLEDO: Ohio wildlife investigators say two convicted poachers picked the wrong deer to kill.Wildlife photographers near Toledo first noticed the deer nicknamed ''Big Boy'' had been missing from a suburban park last fall.Then they saw photos on the Internet of 20-year-old Justin Angles of Fostoria posing with the 15-point buck and called authorities.Angles even posted a picture of himself with the deer on the state Division of Wildlife Web site, claiming he had harvested the deer in Wood County with a long bow.

<p>When deer hunting season starts Saturday in Hanover, whitetails will be in the hunters' sights, but two white deer named Snowflake and Snowball better not be. Deer culling is a top priority in the Morris County town because the animals destroy plants, carry ticks and cause car accidents, yet the 20 recreational bow hunters lined up for the task have been asked to spare two mostly white deer that have become favorites among township residents.</p>

No arrests have been made in the Saturday morning incident about five miles south of Waupaca, said Ted Dremel, a state Department of Natural Resources warden. There's talk of closing all snowmobile trails in Waupaca County until the "rogue snowmobilers" are caught, he said.

Rudolph: 'I don't feel tardy Officials at a Hamilton Township school are hoping for a return to normal Tuesday, a day after class was disrupted by two deer leaping through a window. Pastor Lance Walker of the Faith Baptist School says the deer jumped into a teacher's supply room Monday morning, startling three students and a teacher who were working on a lesson. They managed to get out and close the door, leaving the deer to trash the room. The school canceled outdoor recess for the day. By early afternoon, animal control officers showed up and tranquilized the animals so...

My wife, Mary, and I recently visited her parents who live in the hills of West Virginia. After a lovely few days with her folks, we prepared to fly home to Florida. Mary's mom's computer was broken so we could not download our boarding passes. We were forced to drive10 miles to Mary's sister's office to use a computer. To get there, Mary's mom instructed, “Take Grassy Lick Road”. As Mary drove the extremely hilly and winding road, we keep loosing the radio signal. So, we turned the radio off. We didn't see a single soul; only small farms, horses...

Clay Center hunter shoots 27-point doe Everything seemed perfect for Mike Smith. His scouting, stand location and shot were all on. The whitetail wore the kind of 27-point, gnarly non-typical rack most hunters only dream about. But something totally expected was missing. "When I rolled it over there was nothing male-looking on the deer," said Smith, of Clay Center. "I looked at the back end and it was definitely a doe. That was a real surprise." Not only was the deer he shot Dec. 3, on the opening of firearms deer season, a rare antlered white-tailed doe, it may be...

Last night, I hit a deer on a pitch dark road on the way home. Amazingly, the car was mostly unscathed and drivable and I could see the deer hit the road after it flew over the roof. The poor thing. Has any one has an accident like that? I think its an "act of god" type situation.

SEDALIA, Mo. – A hunter bagged a big buck on the second day of firearms season, but the kill caused him a lot of pain. Randy Goodman, 49, said he thought two well-placed shots with his .270-caliber rifle had killed the buck on Nov. 19. Goodman said the deer looked dead to him, but seconds later the nine-point, 240-pound animal came to life.

It's deer mating season — when lusting bucks recklessly run around searching for does — and authorities are cautioning motorists to watch out.  The state police barracks at Netcong received three calls about deer-related incidents today. In one noontime incident on I-80 eastbound in Parsippany, an antlered buck that apparently had been struck in the head by a vehicle briefly halted traffic as it stood dazed and bleeding in the center lane. State Police had no information on the injured animal’s fate.The peak of the rutting season for bucks is the first three weeks of November for the northern part...

WASHINGTON -- A Maryland lobbyist was attacked by a deer outside his home and says the buck repeatedly stabbed him with its antlers, before he was able to wrestle the animal to the ground. Gilbert Genn, a former state delegate from Montgomery County, says the bizarre incident occurred Thursday, as he left his Gaithersburg home to walk his dog, Yuffie. When the deer appeared on the front lawn of his home, his chocolate labrador ran to chase it off, but the buck didn't budge.

Cops in North Carolina thought it was odd enough a Jacksonville man was driving an ambulance reported stolen hours earlier. Odder still was that he was wearing a makeshift doctor's uniform consisting of a stethoscope, a pager-like gadget and latex gloves stuffed in his back pocket. But then things started getting really strange when they saw a dead deer, fully stretched out and wedged in the back. Some said there was an intravenous line attached to the animal and there was evidence a defibrillator had been used. ... "I don't know how the man got it up in there," said...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Emergency responders in The Woodlands were met with a wild surprise Wednesday morning while investigating a reported explosion at a chemical company. Raw video The call came in to the fire department around 9 a.m. When crews arrived at the scene, they put on their gas masks and made their way inside. Once they got in, the firefighters noticed blood on the floor and called the police.

. . . Fall is the likeliest season for vehicular crashes involving deer because it is their mating season. There were 25,006 deer-vehicle crashes in Illinois last year -- down from the 25,490 recorded in 2006. Injuries were also down from such crashes in 2007 from the previous year, but there were five fatalities last year -- as opposed to only one in 2006. Naturalists say deer are most active at dawn and dusk, so motorists should be especially alert at those times. Cook County recorded the highest number of deer-related crashes last year with 995, followed by Madison County...

Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years.

Wang Cheng has the perfect remedy for athletes struggling to recover from injury during the Beijing Olympics. “Deer's penis,” she said, proferring a desiccated sample across the counter of the Tongrentang traditional Chinese medicine store in central Beijing. “Mix it with some alcohol, take it every one or two days, and you'll soon feel better,” Ms Wang, a graduate in Chinese traditional medicine, said.

Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer is found in Italy By MARTA FALCONI , Associated Press Writer This undated photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Deer - nicknamed 'Unicorn' - was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences, said. He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns. (AP Photo/Center of Natural Sciences)...

As I sit here behind this laptop, I now realize that this definitely wasn’t the brightest idea I have ever had. I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I...

Great Dane makes a deer friend Last Updated: 2:38PM BST 07/05/2008Richard AustinAs Bambi discovered, life as an orphaned fawn can be a bit scary - unless you have a friend called Rocky that is.> Doe-eyed Cindy would have been left all alone in the world were it not for the strong paternal instincts of the Great Dane, who is as protective of her as he is his puppies. Staff at the Secret World Animal Rescue Centre in Highbridge, Somerset, have been caring for Cindy since she was found close to death when she was days old. The 9st dog towers...

Sad but true...animals meet their maker on the highways and byways every day. We’ve all seen them...deer, raccoons, pheasants, geese, even bears...that happened to, (on purpose or accidentally), play in traffic. We look the other way and pretend that we didn’t see that big 12 point buck or that big old fat pheasant rooster laying on the shoulder of the road. The Road Kill Record Book Club celebrates and memorializes the alpha animals of the wild kingdom. Honor Mother Nature’s Finest. Pick up the “Big Guy”...measure with certainty...enter it in the Record Book. And if it’s a really good trophy...mount...

CHURCH HILL, Tenn. - Investigators are searching for whomever poured deer urine into an air conditioning unit at a school in eastern Tennessee. About a dozen students became ill after the prank at Volunteer High School in Church Hill. Firefighters were sent to the school Monday after the odor became overpowering in one classroom, and paramedics treated students who complained of headache and nausea. Church Hill Police Chief Mark Johnson says the stunt could result in a vandalism charge. Deer urine is sold by the bottle to be used to attract the animals for hunting.

It's been quite a while but I finally caught sight of the deer who have been eating the fruit from my trees.The little buggers have cleaned off my Peach tree a few times.Still it is nice to see them.Anyone else have any critter sightings?This is unusual around here as I live in a fairly populated area so close to Massachusetts that I could spit into it, and I often do.

Authorities often learn about it from landowners who hear shooting at night and find deer carcasses in their fields the next day. One case came to light when a bloody deer heart was discovered in a girl's high school locker. And some incidents are solved when conservation wardens catch the criminals red-handed - shooting from roads with the help of spotlights and headlights, then leaving the wounded and dying animals behind. Conservation wardens call it "thrill killing" of animals, and it appears to be a growing problem throughout Wisconsin, said Chief Warden Randy Stark. Several dozen cases have been confirmed...

SIMCOE -- Grandma got run over by a reindeer. OK, so it was actually a white-tailed deer and there were two of them. But they were deer, Rhea Wilcox is a grandma and they did run her over. It happened last Sunday in the parking lot of Mount Zion United Church in Renton, east of Simcoe. Seventy-seven-year-old Wilcox was waiting for her ride about 10:30 a.m. when two deer emerged out of nowhere and ran overtop her. "All I saw was a rear end, a white flash and the feet of deer going by," said Wilcox. "We figured someone had...

LAMPASAS TX - Imagine driving down the street when suddenly, a deer leaps through a window into your car! That's exactly what happened to a woman in Lampasas this morning at 3rd and Porter. She had just dropped her children off at school and was driving down the street when the deer made its grand entrance.

LOWELL, Mass. -- A local dog owner is devastated after her dog was shot and killed. Michelle Verville was walking her dog, Smokey, in the Lowell-Dracut State Forest last week when she heard a gun shot. Smokey, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, yelped and Verville noticed that her dog had been shot in the stomach. "I just stayed there with him and told him that it was ok, and that we loved him and that he was a good dog, and then he passed," Verville said. it is legal to hunt for deer in State parks from Nov. 26 to Dec....

In the tradition of my list of the top places to find melanistic squirrels in 2006, here’s a list of the top locations to see black deer in 2007. 1. Texas Hill Country, Central Texas. It has been said that the eastern edge of Texas’ Edwards Plateau region and adjacent areas of the Blackland Prairie region are the epicenter of the world’s population of melanistic white-tailed deer, for reasons not well understood by zoologists. In going over the scientific literature, Dr. John T. Baccus and John C. Posey of Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos have been unable to...

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won surprise backing from the wife of former French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday, together with a pledge to join her on the campaign trail. The Chiracs' political affiliations are at the opposite end of the spectrum from the Clintons', but the former French first lady said she had always thought Democratic candidate Clinton had the makings of a U.S. president. "She's a woman who is not liked by everybody. But she's strong and she has convictions," Bernadette Chirac, well-known for a forceful character of her own, told the weekly Le Figaro...

BATH, N.H. -- It is the first day for deer hunting season in New Hampshire (for those not using arrows) and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul marked the day with a stop at a gun store in Whitefield.

TRUMANN — A hunting trip in Fulton County turned into a life-or-death wrestling match for a Trumann man there with family for the annual Arkansas Youth deer hunt. What Greg Vincent found himself locked into a deadly struggle with Saturday morning was not human. It was a 6-point buck deer they walked upon while blood-trailing another deer shot by Vincent’s son, Kyle Vincent, who is 13.

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SIERRA VISTA — The cyclists involved in the tandem-bicycle versus-deer accident on Oct. 12 are still recovering from broken bones and a concussion. The couple attribute their survival of the crash to their helmets, and expressed gratitude to the Huachuca City Police Department and Fry Fire District first responders, as well as the assisting motorists and the Sierra Vista emergency room staff for their quick and competent help. And while they recover, they would like to remind the motoring community to respect and be courteous to the bicyclists and motorcyclists that share the road. About 6:20 a.m. on Oct. 12,...

BALL GROUND, Ga. -- A man was found dead after apparently being attacked by a deer. The body of John Henry Frix, 66, was found around 8 p.m. Sunday inside the deer's pen on his property. He had been gored several times in the upper body by a deer's antlers, Cherokee County sheriff's Sgt. Jay Baker said. The deer was one of several Frix kept on his property. "This particular deer had apparently been in rut, which is their breeding cycle, and they become very aggressive," said Cherokee County Sheriff's Deputy Jay Baker. "This deer had been quite aggressive...

Bambi vs. the Bureaucrats Six years ago, an Oregon man rescued a fawn and raised her as a family pet. So when the state seized the deer, with a threat of euthanasia, all hell broke loose. By Winston Ross Sept. 19, 2007 - Had he been a hunter, and had the mottled white doe that tumbled down a hill into his rural Oregon driveway six years ago been an adult, Jim Filipetti could have ponied up $19, applied for a deer tag and gunned the animal down. He could have butchered the deer the state now knows as "Snowball," mounted...

An insect-borne virus is being blamed for killing nearly 200 deer across Virginia in recent weeks, and the state is bracing for the toll to go higher. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease does not affect humans, but it's frustrating for game officials because the only thing that will stop it is the onset of cold, wet weather that will kill off insects. "It's worse in the western part of the state because of the drought creating the perfect environment for this," said Julia Dixon, spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Since late July, the game department has received...

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07:18 PM PDT on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 By ANTONIA GIEDWOYN and kgw.com Staff MOLALLA, Ore. -- Officials with the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife on Wednesday arrived to take two pet deer from a Molalla family. Watch the KGW report Franchesca Mantei found the deformed, rare-colored black tail deer named 'Snowball' five years ago. Eventually, another deer mated with Snowball and the deer gave birth to Bucky. But under Oregon law, the animals were being held illegally. Mantei spent most of Wednesday morning bawling. Four Oregon State Police cars were parked in her driveway. Fish & Wildlife officials...

When bull elk reach 2 1/2 years old, 50 to 75 percent of them leave the area they were born for new locations. No one is sure of the reason, but discoveries such as this can make it a tough job for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, which is in charge of controlling animal populations. Northwest Colorado landowners have complained for years that the elk herd population estimates were faulty, and those complaints did not fall on deaf ears. A Thursday evening meeting at the Moffat County Fair­grounds pavilion was the result of such complaints. About three dozen landowners, outfitters...

The search for the "magic bullet" contraceptive, a one-shot, long-lasting solution to the state's deer overpopulation woes, has once again eluded scientists, according to the latest study by a wildlife research team. Biologist Anthony DiNicola's study of a captive herd at the Giralda Farms corporate center in Madison found that one of the latest immuno-contraceptives, called GonaCon, falls far short of being a viable vaccine. Had it worked, scientists say it would have been a godsend to towns with too many deer, and where hunting is difficult or impractical. The two-year study of 51 adult deer at Giralda Farms showed...