Females have no antlers and have a smaller white patch ... Also known as the chital or spotted deer, the axis deer originated on the Indian subcontinent. Fairly large populations exist in the ...

The spotted deer or chital is India’s most common deer ... spine streak give the species its very appropriate name. Their antlers are proportionately huge, though typically just three-tined ...

The antlers have been sent to the Zoological Survey of India for further tests. While sambar deer is protected under Schedule I of Wildlife Protection Act, chital is protected under Schedule II of ...

A male chital with large antlers is more likely to get tangled in the thickets. (deer yelps) The dholes edge closer, talking to each other to coordinate their attack. But their high frequency ...

Feral chital deer with antlers. Picture: Shaunak Modi The intensive cull will be followed by ground culling three times a year, according to the new management plan. Council’s management plan ...

Aditya Patil, President of the WWA, said this is the second incident of a chital deer straying into human settlement since 2020, when two deer — including a stag whose antlers were stuck in the ...