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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...

SHELBY FARMS, EAST MEMPHIS -- Investigators say they can't decide which is more outrageous... Two sheriff's deputies killing deer out of season while on duty in a public park... or the fact they took pictures of themselves doing it. Former Shelby County Sheriff's Deputy Thomas Braswell and suspended Shelby County Sheriff's Deputy Aaron Pretti have been charged in connection with an incident that happened at Shelby Farms last July. According to records from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, one of its officers received a tip from the Shelby County Sheriff's Office's Internal Affairs division. The tip said someone was circulating...

A cyclist was transported to a hospital with minor injuries early Thursday morning after colliding with a deer in a secluded area of Walt Disney World property, according to officials. Jeffrey Norberry, 56, of Windermere, was taken to Celebration Hospital after the incident happened at about 2:50 a.m. on Floridian Way near Cast Drive, officials said. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, Norberry was traveling eastbound on Floridian Way, and a deer was running westbound when they collided head-on. Norberry flipped over the bicycle's handlebars and the deer after the impact, the report said. The deer fled the area....

This is one of those elephant in the living room kinds of problems which people ought to be talking about but don't seem to be. I mean, of all the animals I never would have figured I'd ever feel sorry for or which would ever be scarce or quality as an endangered species or anything like that..... I mean, you can't find crows in Virginia or Maryland any more, they're gone. We used to have enormous flocks of crows in Alexandria; all gone. We've got one lonely crow living at Southern Towers now, the sole survivor. Likewise I was out...

TWO Cornish fisherman came back with a bigger catch than usual, after reportedly hooking a live deer which had fallen into the sea. Chris Earl and Tony Allsopp were checking lobster pots when they spotted the animal swimming about 1km off the English coast. They threw a line around the beast and hauled it on board by its antlers.

Chester Township -- They might be a kind of curly horned sheep. Of course, they could be a funky breed of mountain goat, too. Or . . . well, this sounds sort of silly, but the idea has been tossed out there . . . maybe they're mutant deer. But whatever they are, they're roaming the woods in this Geauga County community. At least three of the mystery animals popped up a few months ago, bringing a smattering of quizzical calls to Chester Township police and leaving wildlife experts scratching their heads. One resident managed to snap a few photos...

Deer Roping In Elko Nevada I had this idea that 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 congregated 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 am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away)...

When Youngsville's Craig Lewis set out to hunt on an either-sex deer day at Tony's Ranch in Ringgold, he never knew it would literallly be an either-sex day. Lewis set up in his stand at 5:30 a.m. and around 7 a.m. spotted a small deer near his feeder. As he battled through the mist and the rain to spot the deer in his scope, another deer moved into sight. This one was much bigger than its companion. "When I looked up, all I could see was the body," Lewis said. "It was big, like a horse. But its head was...

a menace to pets, people and property. The city of Alamosa declared open season Tuesday on town deer, a population that officials say has become both too abundant and aggressive. The town's first deer hunt - up to 30 licenses, five at a time, to be issued on antlerless animals - will run through February on the front nine of the golf course and on a 1,300-acre ranch held by the town as a wildlife preserve, City Manager Nathan Cherpeski said. The hunt allows for archery and shotguns, but no rifles (errant bullets would travel too far). The town is...

NORMAN, Okla. -- The pilot of a TV news helicopter used the wind from the aircraft's rotor to push a stranded deer to safety after it lost its footing on a frozen lake and could not get up. A small crowd had gathered to watch the deer struggling, its hooves repeatedly slipping, near the shore of Lake Thunderbird around 4 p.m. Wednesday. With the helicopter's camera rolling, KWTV pilot Mason Dunn used the wind from the rotor to push the deer, initially sending it into a break in the ice where the animal managed to hold onto the ice with...

A friend sent me this in the email the other day A very eventful day around here... A once in many lifetimes experience! Mark saw this lil' feller run out in front of a car, thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW. A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Momma deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of Mark... Well, he is THE neatest thing any of us ever saw. And such a 'freak of nature', that only 1 in more than a million are even born....

It took just one shot for Carmen Erickson to drop a buck with a 4-by-4 rack. But when he and his six hunting buddies got to the animal, they got the surprise of their lives: it was a "transman." In addition to its well-developed antlers, the deer had teats but no testicles. Erickson’s doe is not one-of-a-kind, though rare enough that his hunting group will be talking about his unusual trophy for years to come. In an unrelated development, ABC’s daytime soap opera "All My Children" is introducing a character who is a "shemale" (in the process of undergoing hormonal...

Man Shoots Doe With Rack of Antlers MICHIGAN, N.D. (AP) -- When Carmen Erickson dropped a deer with a single shot in a cattail slough south of here, he thought he'd downed a nice buck. Unlike his shot, he was a little off. The deer was a doe. "It's got no male utilities," said Erickson, who lives in Minot. "It has teats ... it was pretty unusual." Six hunting partners with Erickson witnessed the doe with a 4-by-4 rack. "I'm sure this story will be around for 10 years," he said. "At least in our group." Erickson notified the state...

Bizarre local sightings evoked a nationwide fascination with Big Foot. In Washington County there have been several reports of a 7-foot hairy creature with pointy ears. Steve Krueger was doing his job on Nov. 9 -- removing road-side deer carcasses overnight for the Department of Natural Resources. Krueger said he had just made a pick-up along a remote road near Holy Hill about 1:30 a.m., and he was in the cab doing some paperwork. When his parked truck started shaking, he looked in the rear view mirror and got the scare of his life. He said his flashing lights illuminated...

SHEBOYGAN, WI (AP) -- A walk in a city park turned into a wrestling match with an infuriated deer for three Sheboygan men who battled with the injured 6-point buck until police came and shot it. "I just grabbed the horns, which is pretty stupid,"said Anthony Lee, 20, explaining that his first reaction was to protect his cousin's dog, which was closest to the rampaging deer. "That's where it all started," he said. He estimated the melee lasted about 20 minutes, as the three men hung onto the antlers, hit the deer with sticks and finally tackled the animal and...

Wisconsin has been one of the states most proactive in the battle against Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). A form of the same fatal brain illness as mad cow disease, CWD actually forms holes in animals' brains, causing a variety of illnesses, including weight loss, tremors, odd - almost crazy behavior- and, eventually death. There are no reported instances of an infected animal having ever recovered from CWD. To date, deer and elk in 14 states have been found to have CWD. There is no evidence, however, that people have ever caught chronic wasting disease from infected deer or elk. Since...

As he does most nights, 58-year-old Dennis Helgeland joined dozens of others in the soup kitchen line at the House of Compassion. His gait quickened when he saw what the ladies from the First United Methodist Church were serving: Spaghetti and venison meatballs. "I love venison," he said, as he asked for an extra big helping. Though tender cuts of venison are an entree in fancy restaurants from New York to Paris, many people, including some hunters, dismiss the meat as too gamy. But "around here," says Mr. Helgeland, "it's like a delicacy." With the deer-hunting season going full blast,...

A Minnesota man is charged with having his way with a deer, but he claims it was just venison, the Superior Daily Telegram reports: Bryan James Hathaway, 20, of Superior faces a misdemeanor charge of sexual gratification with an animal. He is accused of having sex with a dead deer he saw beside Stinson Avenue on Oct. 11. A motion filed last week by his attorney, public defender Fredric Anderson, argued that because the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal and the charge should be dismissed. The Smoking Gun has Hathaway's mug shot and a copy of...

A Woodbury woman has bagged one of the biggest bucks ever killed in Minnesota with a bow and arrow. Deb Luzinski shot the 24-point buck last Friday at Bald Eagle-Otter Lakes Regional Park in White Bear Township, in northeastern Ramsey County. Once a mandatory 60-day drying period has passed, her buck could rank among the top three non-symmetrical -- or non-typical -- white-tailed deer ever killed with a bow and arrow, according to the Minnesota Record Book.

A friend asked how I would cook a fresh killed deer loin (roast). He asked because I love to cook but since I don't have the means to hunt I usually end up with steaks or chuck (usually ground). So my experience in fresh killed deer is limited. I am looking for susgestions. My recipe would be the following; Preheat oven to 500 degrees Prepare this with the fat side up. Pierce on the fat side with a paring knife and slide slivers of garlic well into the meat. Salt and pepper the top of the roast. Cover the top...

Land and crop management for wildlife has become more and more commercial, with all sorts of products available to attract animals, particularly deer. The question is, does it work? In the past few years I've become ever more curious about the revolution -- an apt word -- in land management for wildlife, particularly as it benefits deer. And deer hunters. At least that's the theory. Land and crop management have been popular among wildlife enthusiasts and, particularly, among hunters since the days a century ago when Aldo Leopold offered his thoughts on game and game management.

I was out yesterday afternoon for a sort of a final tuneup with my own two HCA bows and there was one other guy at the site with a recent Mathews bow, parallel limbs, set just under 70 lbs. I let him try several shots with my 280-gr arrows, then we checked speed with his own arrows vs the HC arrows; it was 275 fps vs 324 fps. That's pretty substantial. Misjudge distance by five yards out past 25 yards and that's the difference between being an inch off and missing the deer and never finding the arrow. The bow...

Judge lets teens finish season before serving sentence for fake deer prank KENTON, Ohio - A judge decided two high school athletes can complete the football season this fall before they serve 60-day jail sentences for a car crash caused by a decoy deer placed in a country road. Two teens were injured. “I shouldn’t be doing this, but I’m going to. I see positive things about participating in football,” Judge Gary McKinley said Tuesday. Dailyn Campbell, a 16-year-old quarterback for Kenton High, and 17-year-old teammate Jesse Howard will serve their time in a juvenile detention center. They were also...

Wisconsin’s white-tailed deer population is projected to be 1.5 to 1.7 million this fall, which figures to be 12 percent higher than last fall. According to Keith Warnke, big game ecologist for the DNR, that projection is well above established population goals, but better than biologists expected or ever hoped for. Given the limited herd control seasons last year and the extremely mild winter in northern Wisconsin, hunters did a fine job limiting projected herd growth to 12 percent. But, he continued, you can see by the amount of herd control and earn-a-buck units this fall, of which 59B is...

Nearly two years after a dispute over a deer stand that left six western Wisconsin hunters dead, a new Rice Lake park dedicated to the hunters has been completed. Hunters Memorial Park will be dedicated at 1 p.m. Monday. The park, at Whitetail Drive and Linden Avenue, was built with private donations and will be given to the city of Rice Lake. North Builders Association donated labor, one of the two lots needed and some of the building materials. It also raised funds to cover other park expenses. Aspen Creek Services donated the second lot. The cost of the park...

Dying deer given CPR By Corey Wicks Staff reporter When it comes to concern for wildlife, people in Joseph put their mouth where their concern is. Literally. Wallowa County Detective Neil Rogers was called to a report of a deer that had been hit by a vehicle Sunday, July 2, in downtown Joseph. When Rogers arrived a crowd of people had gathered in the street and were in the process of pulling the deer out from underneath a trailer, Rogers said. The deer was badly mangled but managed to wake up and stumble past the crowd. It then fell into...