DEER LOCKED IN COMBAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19668, 21 June 1927, Page 9

DEER LOCKED IN COMBAT.

'STRUGGLES TO GET FREE. RELEASED BY FOUR MEN. [FROM our own correspondent.] VANCOUVER, June 1. In Canada, the . hig-garue country of North America, the finding in the woods of skeletons of two male deer, with antlers firmly locked together, is a comparatively frequent occurrence. These remains are taken to indicate that the bucks became locked in combat, and that, when thus rendered helpless, death came quickly from wolves or by exhaustion. Rarely, however, have woodsmen come upon live deer so entangled, and probably the first t occasion upon which the combatants have been freed occurred recently in one of th© gam© sfinctuaxiGS of the Canadian National Parks. In this instan,ce, the officer in charge of the catt.alo enclosure at the buffalo national park at Wainwright, Alberta, where the mule doer are numerous, noticed two bucks locked together by their antlers and nnahie to get free, in spite of desperate struggles. Bein< T alone at the time, the official was not able to deal with the situation, but next morning, with three others to assist him, he was able to rope the combatants and separate them, unharmed.