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The Future of Reindeer in Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

M. N. P. Utsi
M. N. P. Utsi
Affiliation:
Technical Adviser, Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom
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When the current reindeer experiment in Scotland is discussed I am sometimes asked: “Why try to introduce, or reintroduce, reindeer when there are probably as many red deer as the ground can carry and certainly more than the black-faced-sheep farmers want ?”

On my first visit to Scotland, nearly ten years ago, I was very proud to catch a glimpse of red deer grazing in the Spey valley. “The monarch of the glen” on a crag is a stately sight, or a herd galloping with heads held high. After the rut, on the other hand, stags become “lean as herons”, to quote David Stephen.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , April 1957 , pp. 40 - 42
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1957