[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: More linguistic confusion--deer, elk, and moose

[KEN ADAMS]

Yes but the spots fallow deer have as fawns have a completely different pattern to those they have as adults and resemble much more clearly those of your two species.
KEN




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From: Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, 15 January, 2009 8:19:42 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: More linguistic confusion--deer, elk, and moose


Carol earlier:

(Only the fawns have spots, unlike the fallow deer.)

Ken responded:
> <snip> You sre quite right in pointing out that your two species of
deer are about the size of the Fallow Deer although wrong in
suggesting that Fallow Deer fawns lack spots. <snip> 

Carol responds:

Just to clarify, I didn't mean that the fallow deer fawns lack spots.
I meant that mule deer and white tails have spots only as fawns,
unlike the fallow deer, which also have spots as adults in spring (or
is it summer?)--as we can see from the illustration I linked to
earlier and the photo that someone else, I think Potioncat, linked to.

Carol, conceding that she should have worded the little aside more clearly

 

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