Ungulate in Great Otway National Park

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  nanoboy

• 3 Nov 2013

We saw three light coloured ungulates (can\'t think of a better word) bounding away as we drove past in Anglesea Heath/Great Otway National Park in southern Victoria. Is it a goat? A shorn sheep? Or a deer of some sort? This is the best pic we could manage.

 

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  DavidBrown

• 3 Nov 2013

Looks like a fallow deer maybe?

 

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  Hix

• 3 Nov 2013

Definitely a deer, but I don't know what sort they have feral down there, especially that colour.

Monty will probably know.

 

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  FBBird

• 3 Nov 2013

Ungulate......

There are white Fallow in the Dorset, UK population, so they could have the same in Oz.

 

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  vogelcommando

• 3 Nov 2013

White fallow deer was also my first thougt

 

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  Kakapo

• 3 Nov 2013

I'm completely sure that is a white Fallow Deer (Dama dama) since the same moment I saw the photo.

 

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  dean

• 3 Nov 2013

I was at Houghton Hall in Norfolk last month, they have a vast herd of dear and nearly every fallow is white or very pale, just like this one. Incidently they also had Pere Davids deer too.

 

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  nanoboy

• 3 Nov 2013

Fallow dear it is then. Cheers!

 

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  lintworm

• 4 Nov 2013

I can only confirm it is a white fallow deer!

 

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  KynaMavies

• 8 May 2014

Yep, i also think it's a white fallow deer! There's lots of information in this video i watched recently, The Ungulates: By Hoof , By Claw or By Nail - YouTube about Ungulates, maybe it could help