Title: Exotic Intruders

Author: Joan Druett

Publication details: Heinemann, 1983, Auckland

Digital publication kindly authorised by: Joan Druett

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

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Exotic Intruders

[fallow deer]

page 77
Black and white photograph of fallow deer.

The first fallow deer introduced into New Zealand came from Richmond Park, Surrey, in 1864. They were released in the Aniseed Valley, near Nelson, and acclimatised well, being hunted with some persistence but managing to avoid extermination. In 1867 the Otago Acclimatisation Society obtained four fallow deer from Australia and in the 1870s a few fallow deer were imported from Tasmania into Southland.

Fallow buck.

Fallow buck.

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