AR-News: (Japan) Deer's tasty demise helps them, too

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By C.W. NICOL

The first time I saw a Japanese sika (deer, Cervus Nippon) was on tiny Lundy 
Island, which lies in the Bristol Channel between South Wales and the north 
coast of the beautiful English county of Devon. I was going on for 20, and had 
gone to the island to assist the warden. 

Yours truly and my neighbor Yoshio Kazama skinning and butchering a sika he 
shot (far left and above right); venison hams being salted (left). KENJI MINAMI 
PHOTOS
I don't know when those deer were introduced to Lundy, but they were brought 
to Britain from Japan about 150 years ago. On Lundy they seemed very timid and 
wild, probably because the owner (Lundy was private property then; now it's a 
trust) used to invite his friends over to shoot them, and both I and the 
warden were usually carrying .22-caliber rifles to cull rabbits with. 
The deer were lovely animals, rounder and stockier than the red deer I'd seen 
before in Scotland, and with bright, chestnut summer coats that often had 
white spots. However, though I often wondered what they tasted like, as I'd eaten 
caribou in the Arctic, I really wasn't tempted to shoot one.




full story:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20040205cw.htm

"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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