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The not-deer was likely inspired by accounts of deer with neurological diseases such as chronic wasting disease, also known as zombie deer disease. [2] The not-deer is an example of a cryptid not characterized as an entirely unknown creature (such as Bigfoot), but rather a creature defined in contrast to normal deer. Prior to 2019, not-deer ...
Island tameness can be highly maladaptive in situations where humans have introduced predators, intentionally or accidentally, such as dogs, cats, pigs or rats, to islands where ecologically naïve fauna lives. It has also made many island species, such as the extinct dodo or the short-tailed albatross, vulnerable to human hunting. In many ...
Domestication and taming are related but distinct concepts. Taming is the conditioned behavioral modification of a wild-born animal when its natural avoidance of humans is reduced and it accepts the presence of humans, but domestication is the permanent genetic modification of a bred lineage that leads to an inherited predisposition toward humans.
Scientists swabbed the nostrils of white-tailed deer in Ohio and found evidence that humans had spread the coronavirus to deer at least six times, according to a study published last month in Nature.
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A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC. Deer have significant roles in the mythology of various peoples located all over the world, such as object of worship, the incarnation of deities, the object of heroic quests and deeds, or as magical disguise or enchantment/curse for princesses and princes in many folk and fairy tales.
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