I believe they may have some Prezwalski Horses also- or did have.
Is the Park accessible to the public nowadays? I visited there once some years ago when it was completely private but you could see the huge herds of White and Common Fallow Deer from the roads around the perimeter. This was before any of the more exotic species were added.
I believe they do have Barasingha(from Port Lympne,) and Chital( from Cricket St Thomas) but I didn't know about Sambar( presumably from PL also?)
I would be interested to know anything about what numbers of these exotic deer they have.
I believe they may have some Prezwalski Horses also- or did have.
Is the Park accessible to the public nowadays? I visited there once some years ago when it was completely private but you could see the huge herds of White and Common Fallow Deer from the roads around the perimeter. This was before any of the more exotic species were added.
I believe they do have Barasingha(from Port Lympne,) and Chital( from Cricket St Thomas) but I didn't know about Sambar( presumably from PL also?)
I would be interested to know anything about what numbers of these exotic deer they have.
Found an interesting Excel spreadsheet (not sure how to link it to Zoochat) from the British Deer Society, cataloguing the captive or enclosed deer species at all public-access sites in the UK as at 22nd November 2017. At Houghton Hall the following species/subspecies are listed:
- Japanese sika Cervus nippon nippon and Formosan sika Cervus nippon taiouanus
- Common fallow deer Dama dama
- Chinese water deer Hydropotes inermis
- Chital Axis axis
- Barasingha Rucervus duvaucelii
- Pere David's deer Elaphurus davidianus
- Carpathian red deer Cervus elaphus montanus
- Sambar Rusa unicolor
